Lightdm fails, nvidia fails to initialize kernel module

WHAT !?! are you playing around ??? You owe a 3070 and you need the actual drivers 5-series. WHAT are you doing ?

no, not that I am aware of. it seems to be empty, owned by root:root. ls -al shows the date 10.08 - the date on which I started posting, if I am not mistaken. Delete it?

yes remove it together with the xauthority file:
rm /home/dejhost/.Xauthority
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf
systemctl reboot

Blinking cursor again

maybe downgrading kernel/nvidia drivers …
post output from:
ls -hl /var/cache/pacman/pkg | grep linux

If I have mhwd auto-install the drivers for 0300, it installs the video-nvidia, version 2021.11.04 (nonfree). Do I nwed to manually download another version?


post the output of

nvidia-smi | grep Driver

lets donwgrade the 5.15:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux515-5.15.59-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

reboot and select it in the grub menu

Failed to initialize NVML: Drive4/library verdion mismatch

post the actual

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

Failed to start load kernel modules

sudo mkinitcpio -P

and restart (man you broken up almost everything)




boot into a live-iso , backup your datas from the harddisk and do a complete new install. meanwhile everything that wasn’t broken after update is now broken.

you said you have installed nvidia, but according to the inxi output you havent?

Mhwd -li shows me that the version 2021.11.04 is installed

probably because of the downgrade kernel… so we have to downgrade also nvidia for the 515 kernel:
ls -hl /var/cache/pacman/pkg | grep nvidia

how can it tell you this if your system even fails to start load kernel modules ?