GTX 1060 6GB and Kernel 5.10

[mzuniga]

I’m on a system with the graphics card GTX 1060 6GB. I just tried upgrading to kernel 5.10. However, I did get the error message:

failed to start light display manager

It seems like there is no linux510-nvidia driver available for me.

Have support been dropped, as commented here by @philm : [solved] Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module? Or, am I missing something here?

[bogdancovaciu]

The support for that GPU is still trough the 455 drivers, but their name is now video-nvidia.
Read again the wiki from the announcement

[Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1

Known issues and solutions For TL3s and up: This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary. Please, consider subscribing to the Stable Updates Announcements RSS feed Nvidia card owners We simplified nVidia driver installation. This means we dropped legacy drivers. We recommend to switch over to Nouveau drivers if your card is mentioned here and the feature you need is not in red TO DO here for your particular card. If you however still need proprietary drivers, you may want to execute …

You will notice mentioned there what to do if things are still not consistent.

@philm

If proprietary drivers don’t fix everything, please click the ► at the beginning of this line to

[mzuniga]

Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction!