Gdm and nvidia after update

Thank you for your answer, I have already consulted the wikipage, that’s how I have managed to turn on the free drivers. I runned both the commands you requested and here are the outputs:

# mhwd -l
e[1me[31m> e[m0000:23:00.0 (0300:10de:1b81) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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          video-nvidia            2021.11.04               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2021.11.04               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2021.11.04               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


e[1me[31m> e[m0000:1e:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI

and

e[1me[31m> e[mInstalled PCI configs:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
          video-nvidia            2021.11.04               false            PCI


e[1me[31mWarning: e[mNo installed USB configs!

From this I concluded that I should test the

video-nvidia-470xx

instead of the

video-nvidia

driver that I have used so far.
I can confirm that this did the trick, i.e. gdm do not crash on boot and I can use the full 470 driver. So once again, thank you.
However, according to Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products my GeForce 1070 is supposed to be supported by the 495 driver, so I still consider this just half a win.

Just FYI, according to that page, my GTX 960 is also supported but when going to the driver downloads section, it lists 470 for me for the production branch, but 495 for the new features branch. So that might also have something to do with it.

Also, when I run:

mhwd --list

I don’t seee version 495 there:

$ mhwd --list
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1401) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-nvidia            2021.11.04               false            PCI
video-nvidia-470xx            2021.11.04               false            PCI
video-nvidia-390xx            2021.11.04               false            PCI
video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

So, I don’t think there’s a problem, or anything. Don’t worry. Instead, be happy! :grinning:

It is there

can you provide

inxi -Fza 

AAAH, my bad. Terribly sorry.

Just saw it with neofetch as well:

GPU Driver: NVIDIA 495.44

video-nvidia is always the current Nvidia driver, so currently it is 495, previously video-nvidia was 470, but since dropping 470 in favor of 495 meant many people would have to use the old crappy 390 legacy driver (495 dropped support for many cards, it supports only from GTX 1050 if I recall correctly), the video-nvidia-470xx driver option was added so people could still have a decent driver for not so old card.

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I understood it this way. Well, semi, anyway. I was just, obviously incorrectly under the impression 495 would also be under the same naming scheme as 470.

But now I know as well.

:bowing_man: