How to switch from the open nvidia driver to the nvidia proprietary driver?

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How to switch from the open nvidia driver to the nvidia proprietary driver?

with the open driver, after resume I get:

kernel: NVRM: RmHandleDNotifierEvent: RmHandleDNotifierEvent: Failed to handle ACPI D-Notifier event, status=0x11

and eventually the cpus and the fans go to 100% until a crash or I stop it with sysrq-REISUB.

$ sudo /sbin/modinfo nvidia | grep license
        License:        Dual MIT/GPL

$ nvidia-smi
Mon Sep  7 18:24:09 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 610.57.04              KMD Version: 610.57.04     CUDA UMD Version: 13.3     |

On the nvidia forum, people have mentioned that until this is fixed in the open driver, to use the proprietary one. I’d like to do that to test it and see if this fix my problem.

Thanks

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If your kernel is 6.18 then

sudo pacman -Syu linux618-nvidia

To check your active kernel

uname -r

Or

mhwd-kernel -li
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Please have a look at

I think it could come down to something like sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia.

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:thinking:

FYI, modinfo does not need to be run with sudo. Second of all, /sbin/ and /usr/sbin/ are symlinks to /usr/bin/. Manjaro is an Arch based distro, not Debian based.