New NVIDIA drivers are not available in mhwd after update

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Hi. I gave a second chance to manjaro. After clean installing OS I’m still struggling with the same problem. On first boot after installing whole OS i see in mhwd GUI that there is a 455 version of drivers are available to install. I am such a user that before using system I let the system update itself. That’s what I did, and unfortunately for me in mhwd GUI I lost all NVIDIA driver versions except 390 available to install. I have a GTX 650 Ti Super GPU and according to the NVIDIA website, for the latest released driver (455) my card is supported.

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How to fix that to install latest NVIDIA driver 455 via mhwd?

inxi -Fazy 
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.2-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=c79209d9-8416-47b1-a8a9-472b737df337 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=d358d149-6ed5-41f5-b20d-7683346173ac 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72) v: 1.0 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.A0 date: 07/04/2018 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G4560 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: DE 
  L2 cache: 3 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28009 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:11c6 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nouveau 
  unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2880x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 762x238mm (30.0x9.4") 
  s-diag: 798mm (31.4") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 89 size: 410x257mm (16.1x10.1") 
  diag: 484mm (19.1") 
  Monitor-2: DVI-D-1 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 90 size: 408x255mm (16.1x10.0") 
  diag: 481mm (18.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVE6 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a2f0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK106 HDMI Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0b 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.2-2-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e 
  v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8 
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 698.65 GiB used: 9.85 GiB (1.4%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung 
  model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 
  temp: 33.9 C 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 
  size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: KC44 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 223.79 GiB size: 219.28 GiB (97.98%) used: 9.85 GiB (4.5%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 27.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 1080 
Info:
  Processes: 189 Uptime: 45m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.73 GiB 
  used: 2.15 GiB (27.8%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 
  pacman: 1273 lib: 381 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole 
  inxi: 3.2.01
find /var/lib/mhwd -type f -name "*.old" 
/var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime/MHWDCONFIG.old
/var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia/MHWDCONFIG.old
/var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime/MHWDCONFIG.old
/var/lib/mhwd/ids/pci/nvidia.ids.old
mhwd -la 
> All PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  video-virtualmachine            2020.03.26                true            PCI
          video-sisusb            2020.01.18                true            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2020.11.30               false            PCI
              video-s3            2020.01.18                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI
          video-voodoo            2017.03.12                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2020.11.30               false            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
      video-openchrome            2020.01.18                true            PCI
       video-rendition            2020.01.18                true            PCI
     network-rt3562sta            2013.12.07                true            PCI
       network-slmodem            2013.12.07                true            PCI
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI
   network-broadcom-wl            2018.10.07                true            PCI


Warning: No USB configs found!
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This is actually a bit odd, while i can actually can somewhat confirm the problem, as mhwd -la doesn’t specifically list the 455 driver configuration, your inxi shows that you have 5.9.11 as a kernel while the current version is 5.9.16 and is EOL. I recommend switching over to 5.10.
My current guess is it got renamed to simply video-nvidia, as it is now a more rolling release for the nvidia driver.

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I switched now to linux-510 and updated inxi -Fazy output in main post. Still same issue.

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Have you checked if the driver config is available?

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Unfortunately video-nvidia driver config is not available. I put output od mhwd in main post.

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Just read through most of the last stable update thread and it seems your problem has not been reported until now, so i would recommend making a post about it in the relevant thread.
What you could do for now, would be to

    • use the 390xx driver series, as it is available for your system

or

    • install the 455xx driver manually by installing the packages required for it and if need be edit/create the necessary config files

Edit:
One last thing we could check though would be if the needed mhwd files are installed. Could you post the output of pamac list -i | grep mhwd?

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I seem to have the same problem i did some updates and got a black screen ,a few lines at the top of the page error that says about back light error.So i did a fresh install then followed the install nvidia drivers from the front manjaro page .Now i activate nvidia server settings and the monitor isnt there .im not sure what drivers i have installed as the list -i | grep mhwd cmd not found .The page has allso no maximize to full screen now .when i click the top right middle upside down v the page goes down not out .

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For driver version 455 mhwd files are installed.

mhwd                               0.6.5-2                     core       253,4 kB
mhwd-amdgpu                        19.1.0-1                    core       1,0 kB
mhwd-ati                           19.1.0-1                    core       4,0 kB
mhwd-db                            0.6.5-7                     core       28,0 kB
mhwd-nvidia                        455.45.01-3                 core       1,5 kB
mhwd-nvidia-340xx                  340.108-1                              2,5 kB
mhwd-nvidia-390xx                  390.138-1                   core       1,9 kB
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Then i would really recommend a report in the stable update thread. Sorry that i wasn’t able to be of much help.

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See if this post can help… :arrow_down:

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You need to install linux510-nvidia (have 455.45.01 driver)

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I don’t have nvidia-455xx-utils installed, there is nvidia-utils installed in version 455.45.01-2 by default.

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No any change. I installed that then rebooted but nothing changed, same issue.

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I think NVIDIA 455 is only available for LTS Kernel 5.4. It’s not in the 5.10 repos yet.

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You are most likely thinking wrong. I installed linux-54 via mhwd-kernel and linux54-nvidia via pamac and I booted to that kernel via grub but still mhwd not showing any other NVIDIA versions.

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GPU has kepler chipset (GK106-240-A1) and should be supported by latest v455 driver
mhwd-nvidia 455.45.01-3 core 1,5 kB
it works on my GK108B GPU

Suggest you go to Manjaro Settings Manager

manjaro-settings-manager -m msm_mhwd

Right-click and select uninstall for any driver shown as ‘Open-Source’ and ‘Installed’

Then right-click video-nvidia and select install

click on ‘show details’ during uninstall/install process to watch for any errors

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Okay, I can confirm mhwd does not show Nvidia drivers up in linux-510 either.

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there is not video-nvidia option to select.

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I got the same problem after the big update. But i fixed it by uninstalling nvidia-prime,
nvidia-utils, and lib32-nvidia-utils, then install the driver back with mhwd
hope this helps

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I’ve uninstalled nvidia-utils and its dependency linux510-nvidia. I rebooted and still mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 does not install any nvidia drivers. Nvidia drivers aren’t listed in Manajaro Hardware Manager either.

Did you install the driver using mhwd in some specific way?