GeForce GT 630 Rev 2 stopped working with today's update

All,
I have Manjaro running BOINC on 2 machines. Both have GeForce GT 630 Rev 2 and were using the 390 driver because that is what is left supporting that card. BOINC needs the 384 Cuda to help cure cancer, HIV, and COVID-19.

I have tried all of the “solutions” I found on-line. This is a total black-screen-of-death after boot situation. I can and log in via terminal.

I removed video-nvidia via this command in the terminal log in
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia

and rebooted. That loaded some generic driver which shows display but is useless to BOINC making Manjaro useless to me.

[roland@roland-hpcompaqelite8300sff ~]$ mhwd -l | grep nvidia
    video-nvidia-390xx            2020.11.30               false            PCI
[roland@roland-hpcompaqelite8300sff ~]$ sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-390xx
[sudo] password for roland: 
> Installing video-nvidia-390xx...
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia-390xx/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
Processing classid: 0302
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: target not found: linux59-nvidia-390xx
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
Error: pacman failed!
Error: script failed!
[roland@roland-hpcompaqelite8300sff ~]$ 

According to this:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/175203/en-us

Version: 460.80
Release Date: 2021.5.11
Operating System: Linux 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 168.17 MB

Is there an ETA of when 460.80 will bubble through the repo? I really don’t want to manually install the Nvidia driver if I can avoid it. I would really like to be able to keep using the 390 but that doesn’t seem possible.

Help and answers appreciated.

Are you still using linux59? It’s long been EOL and you should replace it. It’s not supported anymore and as you can see from the message there is doesn’t exist a fitting nvidia driver package.

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