[Stable Update] 2026-01-04 - Manjaro 26.0, Mesa, Firefox, LibreOffice, COSMIC

[Randomname123]

I followed @purplemunchies instructions here (I also have a GTX970 ):

@purplemunchies

Here is what I did to deal with the Nvidia drivers via terminal commands:

First I logged out and switched to a TTY and then this is exactly what I typed afterwards:

sudo pacman -Rsu linux612-nvidia linux618-nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

Then immediately after that’s done:

sudo pacman -Syu linux612-nvidia-575xx linux618-nvidia-575xx nvidia-575xx-utils lib32-nvidia-575xx-utils nvidia-575xx-settings

After executing the last command it will install the specified drivers and update the entire system as well with it…

I rebooted after that and i’m typing this now from there…

^ and I also did a quick test to make sure that everything is in order…

Edit (06.01.26):
You need to actually tell mhwd to use the driver you installed as described below. My bad.

@the_person

After all that, I also checked the output of mhwd --listinstalled. I found it a bit weird that it was still listing the driver as video-nvidia rather than video-nvidia-575xx (which should be the correct one according to some comment in this thread). So, to be extra safe, I also did: $ sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia and then $ sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-575xx.

I guess my system was using the free driver maybe? It was ‘video-nvidia’ before and now its ‘video-nvidia-575xx’ after running the commands above.