Hi, I just installed Manjaro KDE 20.2 with Nvidia proprietary drivers. Once install was complete I was prompted to install updates in the software update manager which I did. During these updates the 455 nvidia driver was removed as part of the update process. Why was this and why can I no longer i…

I don’t know ─ I’m not a gamer. I suspect that nouveau would probably not be suitable for gaming, but Manjaro isn’t a distribution specifically aimed at gaming, and Nvidia has already been problematic in GNU/Linux for a long time now. Personally, I avoid Nvidia like the plague nowadays. But then…

Yes, and? Many distributions offer Steam. And for those with AMD graphics or a more modern Nvidia GPU, gaming will be smooth.

So a 4 year old GTX 1050TI is classed as not modern?

Did you read the link I posted higher up (as part of the post I linked to)? It explains why the support for older drivers was dropped. In short: it is very hard if not impossible to get them to compile against recent kernels. :arrow_down: [image] Dropping all legacy and older Nvid…

See if this trick below can help you… :arrow_down: [image] [Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1 Stable Updates I faced the same problem. Just uninstall nvidia-455xx-utils and install nvidia-utils via Pamac. After that…

[image] slowlife: Why was this and why can I no longer install this driver using the auto proprietary driver update tool? See My switch to the 5.10 kernel with update 2020-12-30 , how i did use that actually… It just needed some fiddling, although i updated from before the latest update inste…

Thank you so much :slight_smile:

Evidently a 2 year old NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Max-Q 4GB GDDR5 is also now considered legacy? This is a crappy move.

Drivers removed

Support Graphics & Display

Aragorn 31 December 2020 07:02 9

See if this trick below can help you…

My switch to the 5.10 kernel with update 2020-12-30