Is there a recovery guide for the nVidia 590 blank screen issue

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I am one of the victims of the update that disabled display because the nVidia 590 update doesn<t work with older nVidia GPUs like my GTX 1060. Also I<m having a hard time typing this because I<m in the 618 live environment right now and my usual keyboard isn<t installed.

In all the threads that discuss this issue, I have not seen anyone point to any sort of recovery guide. Is there not one yet^

If not, then here<s where I<m at:

I made a bootable USB drive and, choosing the open source drivers (presumably the proprietary ones wouldn<t work for me since they don<t support my GPU), I entered the 618 live environment.

I went into the CLI terminal emulator and typed sudo manjaro-chroot -a
Which apparently found and mounted my system.

Then I typed nvidia-driver-assistant

Which recommended that I type sudo pacman -S linux618-nvidia-575xx

I think my actual version on this system is 612 so I tried that line except with 612 instead of 618, but I got this error message:

[manjaro /]# sudo pacman -S linux612-nvidia-575xx
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: nvidia-575xx-utils-575.64.05-3 and nvidia-utils-590.48.01-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-utils? \[y/N\] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by lib32-nvidia-utils
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux510-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux515-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux54-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux61-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux612-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux66-nvidia

I tried again with 618 just in case but got the exact same error message.

And now I<m not sure how to proceed.

Help^

Manjaro is super user-friendly the vast majority of the time, but sometimes an update breaks it and suddenly you need advanced knowledge to fix it. I don<t have that knowledge. I now realize that the update manager will never display warnings or give a basic summary about updates even if they are known to be problematic; they are only available here. In the future, I will be checking these forums (apparently there is a page warning about things like this) for warnings before I install updates. But for now the harm has been done and I would greatly appreciate if someone could tell me how to fix it.

Thank you.

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manjaro-chroot already has root privileges (#) so sudois not needed

Try this to install 575xx driver and additional packages for all installed kernels:

mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-575xx

Or this to install 575xx driver and utilities packages for kernel 6.12:

pacman -Sy linux612-nvidia-575xx nvidia-575xx-utils lib32-nvidia-575xx-utils
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Graphics driver not working after update
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Thanks. Unfortunately, it seems neither of those options work.

[manjaro /]# mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-575xx
Error: config ‘video-nvidia-575xx’ conflicts with config(s): video-nvidia
[manjaro /]# pacman -Sy linux612-nvidia-575xx nvidia-575xx-utils lib32-nvidia-575xx-utils
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: nvidia-575xx-utils-575.64.05-3 and nvidia-utils-590.48.01-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-utils? [y/N] y
:: lib32-nvidia-575xx-utils-575.64.05-1 and lib32-nvidia-utils-590.48.01-1 are in conflict (lib32-nvidia-libgl). Remove lib32-nvidia-utils? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux510-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux515-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux54-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux61-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux612-nvidia
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=590.48.01’ required by linux66-nvidia

Any other ideas to get around these dependency issues^

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Remove the packages that require nvidia-utils=590.48.01 by hand. The reason there are so many is that you seem to have a lot of kernels installed.

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Error messages suggest system has 6 kernels installed

I suggest remove kernels 5.4 linux54, 5.10 linux510, 5.15 linux515, 6.6 linux66 and 6.16 linux616 individually:

pamac remove linux54

and remove kernel driver/utilities dependency packages that are no longer needed

pamac remove --orphans

then it should be possible to install 575xx driver/utilities for kernel 6.12

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OK, just to be sure I<m not breaking anything:

If I type

pacman -Qi nvidia-utils

I get:

Required By : lib32-nvidia-utils libglvnd linux510-nvidia
linux515-nvidia linux54-nvidia linux61-nvidia
linux612-nvidia linux66-nvidia

So I would have to remove all those by hand, correct^

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The catch is, I<m not 100% sure 6.12 is my main one. It<s the one on my laptop and it should be the one on my computer, but I<m having doubts:

[manjaro /]# pacman -Q grep linux
grep 3.12-2
linux510 5.10.247-1

I don<t want to remove the default kernel accidentally.

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Yes.
Not sure about libglvnd, didn’t come up on my machine, might just be an optional dependency.

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To check installed kernels

mhwd-kernel -li
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Oh, I know which are installed, I just don<t know which one is default. That command above seems to think it<s 5.10, though that<s a little strange, you<d think I<d have installed the latest LTS version by now. Still, sometimes my kernel info list doesn<t get updated so I might not have seen 6.12 on the computer.

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If you remove 5 out of 6 kernels, the system will boot from the sole remaining kernel

Or you can remove 4 out of 6 kernels and install legacy drivers for the 2 remaining kernels

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Yeeeeeah, looks like I can<t remove libglvnd. It<s a dependency for like three dozen other things.

Looks like I<ll have to see if deleting most kernels helps.

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Very well, I will remove all but 5.10 and 6.12 to see if it<ll let me install 575xx on them.

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The running kernel should show with
inxi -Fz
as long as you are in chroot.

Edit: Forget this, it’s wrong, it will show the live environment.

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Unfortunately it does not, it says I<m running 6.18 so it<s seen the active live environment rather than the default kernel my system would normally be running.

This command says 5.10 but I<m not certain it<s the right one. I<m basically just taking shots in the dark here.

[manjaro /]# pacman -Q grep linux
grep 3.12-2
linux510 5.10.247-1
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Try this in the chroot environment:

pamac search --installed "^linux\d"

to find out which kernels are installed.

The active one in the chroot environment will be the same one as the live environment.

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Yeah, that<s the problem. It tells me which kernel I<m using right now, which I already know, and not which is my default kernel on my system, which is what I need to know to figure out which kernels I need to remove (if I can figure out how to do that too).

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Learned something. Thanks.

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First check which are installed with the above command.
Then remove all except the latest one.
Then install the correct driver for that one.
Finally exit chroot and reboot.