NVIDIA driver update broke NVIDIA drivers?

Hello Manjaro forums again, I’ve gotten a issue with the Nvidia Drivers not working / loading. I was updating some stuff I needed to update about 320 stuff according to Add/Remove software, and doing so it also updated what I assume was something Nvidia Driver related, and just went on with it, something else to mention, I’ve been using Envycontrol to use my Nvidia driver to play games and so.

Trying to switch from Intergrated graphics just made GPU selector put “hybrid” as the one put, then I tried putting Nvidia which shows, but doesn’t work?

image
With the Nvidia drivers before, I’d get regular 60 Hz refresh rate, and a bit less lag with the menu, and some game I have installed won’t boot up anymore, an example being TF2.

1 Like

Another quick thing to add onto this, after that updating stuff, this has appeared in the update tab of Add/Remove software, not going away even after supposedly updating it.

And using Gnome with Xorg doesn’t seem to be an option either, as trying to do that after restarting my PC many times, just seems to kick me back to the User selector ? I’m just a bit lost on what happened and what caused this

Which kernel do you use? linux69 series got dropped with current stable update.

I have Linux69 according to Manjaro Settings manager, something that caught my interest that it shows “UNSUPPORTED” under the “installed”.

That explains why the Nvidia drivers are broken. There are no updates to that kernel series anymore. Please install linux610 or linux66 with that application. Then reboot into one of those kernels to check if your system works and remove linux69 after.

Here some additional info:

1 Like

I’ve installed linux66 and everything works correctly, an issue I found again was I kept getting kicked out of the login twice cause running Gnome with Xorg doesn’t work anymore, I get kicked out from the input password and kicked back to the select user screen, and my Nvidia card still doesn’t seem to work still.

How did you install the linux66 kernel? Were the Nvidia drivers and other extramodules installed as well? sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66 would do that from a terminal. Otherwise the GUI util would do that also. Pamac the software tool would also install additional modules when found from current kernel running.

Example of installed nvidia drivers:

pacman -Q | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-utils 560.35.03-1.0
linux515-nvidia 560.35.03-5
linux61-nvidia 560.35.03-9
linux610-nvidia 560.35.03-27
linux611-nvidia 560.35.03-8
linux66-nvidia 560.35.03-8
mhwd-nvidia 560.35.03-3
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.157-14
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.256.02-4
nvidia-prime 1.0-5
nvidia-settings 560.35.03-1.0
nvidia-utils 560.35.03-3

Example of installed kernels and matching modules:

pacman -Q | grep linux
archlinux-appstream-data 20240914-1
archlinux-keyring 20240709-2
linux-api-headers 6.10-1
linux-firmware 20240928.c979a065-1
linux-firmware-whence 20240928.c979a065-1
linux515 5.15.167-1
linux515-nvidia 560.35.03-5
linux61 6.1.112-1
linux61-headers 6.1.112-1
linux61-nvidia 560.35.03-9
linux610 6.10.12-1
linux610-headers 6.10.12-1
linux610-nvidia 560.35.03-27
linux611 6.11.1-1
linux611-headers 6.11.1-1
linux611-nvidia 560.35.03-8
linux66 6.6.53-1
linux66-headers 6.6.53-1
linux66-nvidia 560.35.03-8
linux69 6.9.12-3
util-linux 2.40.2-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.2-1
1 Like

I installed linux66 by using Manjaro Settings Manager, and I don’t know if Nvidia drivers and other extramodules were installed.

Here are some of the Pacman grep commands I put in the terminal.

pacman -Q | grep nvidia                                          ✔ 
lib32-nvidia-utils 550.120-1
mhwd-nvidia 550.120-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.157-14
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.256.02-4
nvidia-prime 1.0-5
nvidia-settings 550.120-1
nvidia-utils 550.120-1

 pacman -Q | grep linux                                           ✔ 
archlinux-appstream-data 20240526-1
archlinux-keyring 20240709-1
lib32-util-linux 2.40.2-1
linux-api-headers 6.10-1
linux-firmware 20240909.552ed9b8-1
linux-firmware-whence 20240909.552ed9b8-1
linux66 6.6.52-1
util-linux 2.40.2-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.2-1

I’ve unistalled the linux69 kernel after switching to linux66 kernel too.

Please install linux66-nvidia as that is the missing driver in your outputs. Pamac saw a conflict and removed the linux69-nvidia package to been able to update your system. And the Kernel tool didn’t know that nvidia was installed, since it got uninstalled. Hence it didn’t install it for your 6.6 kernel.

2 Likes

Alright, installing linux66-nvidia worked, the Nvidia card seems to be picked up by steam and other apps.

This is what the pacman grep command shows now.

pacman -Q | grep nvidia                                          ✔ 
lib32-nvidia-utils 550.120-1
linux66-nvidia 550.120-2
mhwd-nvidia 550.120-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.157-14
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.256.02-4
nvidia-prime 1.0-5
nvidia-settings 550.120-1
nvidia-utils 550.120-1

pacman -Q | grep linux                                           ✔ 
archlinux-appstream-data 20240526-1
archlinux-keyring 20240709-1
lib32-util-linux 2.40.2-1
linux-api-headers 6.10-1
linux-firmware 20240909.552ed9b8-1
linux-firmware-whence 20240909.552ed9b8-1
linux66 6.6.52-1
linux66-nvidia 550.120-2
util-linux 2.40.2-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.2-1

And as all seems to be working back to normal how it was, I’d like to thank you a lot for helping me out at fixing my Nvidia drivers after this update I had, thanks a lot! :+1:

This topic was automatically closed 3 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.