Screen flicker after 2025-12-15 update

Since this post was moved to a new thread, here are the commands suggested by another user:

sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx

I’m having the same problem as OP. Xfce, etc. and this workaround didn’t work for me. The second command failed with dependency errors:

Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia-470xx/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
Processing classid: 0302
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing linux617-nvidia breaks dependency 'linux617-nvidia' required by linux-nvidia-meta
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=580.119.02' required by linux66-nvidia-open
Error: pacman failed!

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

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First remove the meta package

sudo pacman -R linux-nvidia-meta linux-meta

Then remove the video-nvidia driver and install the versioned driver you require

You have the option of several versioned drivers video-nvidia-{390xx,470xx,570xx,575xx}

Which one depends on your GPU - you may need to experiment - the flow is the same - first remove the existing driver then add the new driver

Example

sudo mhwd -r video-nvidia
sudo mhwd -i video-nvidia-575xx
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