Do I need to freeze my nvidia driver version, or will pamac\mhwd know to not upgrade?

[nikgnomic]

@cantfind

I hope mhwd handles this transition more gracefully. I guess it would have video-nvidia-580xx as the driver pinned for Pascal? Would it automatically uninstall video-nvidia and install video-nvidia-580xx for me, or will I need to do it manually?

if mhwd -li shows latest driver installed: linux-nvidia system will require manual intervention to install a legacy driver

mhwd has video-nvidia-570xx and video-nvidia-575xx legacy drivers for systems with Maxwell and Pascal GPUs, but neither seem to be working well

@stephane

just for info and status 21/12/2025 for 900/1000 series

• version that do no works mhwd-575xx does not work ( come with nvidia575-open … )
• version that do no works mhwd-570xx does not work ( come with nvidia570-open … )
• version that do no works mhwd-47xx works for X11 but ( not work with games like steam )
• version that do no works well nvidia-580xx-dkms for X11 ( because they start with 119 series )…

Manjaro extra repository also has Dynamic Kernel Module Support drivers
nvidia-575xx-dkms
nvidia-575xx-open-dkms
nvidia-570xx-dkms
nvidia-570xx-open-dkms