Nvidia 590.x driver dropping support of Pascal, Maxwell cards - what's the fix on Manjaro?

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Problem

As mentioned in the title, apparently there’s this arch Linux news article that seems to explain why my Nvidia Quadro M1000M card seems to get ignored by the latest 590.x driver.

Article mentions a possible workaround of uninstalling: nvidia, nvidia-lts, or nvidia-dkms and installing nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR.

Issue with the fix

According to this Manjaro Forums thread from December link you’re not supposed to use AUR versions.

The poster of the article seems to have fixed their issue by doing something with his configs and other commands of which I don’t quite follow the logic of. More to it, there does not seem to be any confirmation of whether whatever they did is good.

I’m a bit hesitant doing instructions from a thread that seems to have a bunch of seemingly conflicting posts. For all I know I’ll mess up my system to where I’ll have some nasty conflicts during system updates or something.

Question

So for the same of clarity and reassurance, could anyone tell what the proper or expected Manjaro procedure for restoring support to older Graphics cards would be?

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It is right there in the announcement FAQ/Known Problems and solutions. Since mid-December. Pitty few people seem to care about those announcements.

Basically, install 575.

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Thanks, my bad. I used to check them until my system stopped giving announcement notifications.
Will see if I can get them enabled again.

Thanks a lot for the answer regardless!

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I subscribe to all new forum posts https://forum.manjaro.org/new Most are of no interest to me, but every once in awhile. Takes a few minutes a day to scan and read, which I do in the morning as I read the news.

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That may have stopped happening when the matray application was removed from the repos for a short time. If you regularly remove orphans from your system, then it would have been uninstalled. You can add it back again with:

pamac install matray

It can then be launched from your application launcher. You can also set matray to autostart via its settings.

Alternatively, or in addition, you can be notified via email when there is an update. The email will contain the first post of the update announcement, and a link to the topic.

All you need to do is visit Latest Announcements/Stable Updates topics - Manjaro Linux Forum. Then click on the notification bell at top right, and select “Watching First Post”:

You will then be notified whenever a new topic is created in the Stable Updates section of the forum.

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@scotty65 Thanks for sharing this, just did all that.

For any others that have clicked on this post, I fixed the issue by doing:
sudo mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
(as that’s what was showing up under mhwd -li output)

and then:
sudo mhwd -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-575xx-prime

then just had to reboot, and nvidia started showing up under lsmod again.

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Imagine a click on the ‘updates available’ pamac icon would open the latest announcement…

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The announcement threads can be turned into a feed by adding the following link (with the .rss suffix) to Feed Reader software. If you happen to use Thunderbird, it can also be added there.

https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/stable-updates/12.rss

Enjoy!

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