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I’m having problems with downgrading the nvidia drivers.

I’m installing an alienware laptop with a 4060. The problems are the drivers. Only the 580, works properly. The 590s up to the 610 crash when the laptop wakes up ==> Alt-PrtSc REISUB is the only exit.

I installed Manjaro, the update bumped it to 610. I tried using MANJARO-DOWNGRADE, but obviously I’m doing something wrong, either choosing the wrong drivers or…

Is there a meta package that will roll back everything? or how to roll back all the nvidia stuff?

Thanks

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Nope

Depending on your needs there is nvidia-580xx in both variants open and closed and both as precompiled kernel module and dkms; with dkms remember the headers for your active kernel.

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That’ll help downgrade packages to previous version of the same package, but the NVIDIA drivers are packaged a little differently - each series having their own package.

I haven’t don’t currently have an NVIDIA card and haven’t for some time so this may be outdated advice, but I would remove the currently installed driver and add the opensource driver. Reboot, then install the version of the proprietary driver you need.

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And which one that is? (Proprietary or open or doesn’t matter?) Perhaps the new driver version would also work and the issue comes from somewhere else. Could you please post the full output of inxi -zv8 as

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?

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How did you arrive at that conclusion ?

Without further details, it could equally be a configuration issue. If you have attempted to suspend the system since the last boot, then it would also be useful to see the output of :

journalctl --boot --reverse --grep=nvidia

and of :

journalctl --boot --reverse --grep=suspend
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Yes,

and the name of the program is Timeshift.

A lot of people here use it as a safeguard against update issues.

I once performed a rollback and then an update more than five times before I found the right configuration for my setup—one that really supported my dual-seat configuration well (2 nvidia-cards, 2 monitors, 2 mice, 2 keyboards).
I’ve also rolled back an update and waited a full month before trying again. That’s easily done with Timeshift.

Timeshift is like a safety line. The more problematic your computer or configuration is, the more valuable Timeshift becomes.

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Sorry, I did not express myself properly. I was looking to just get an older version of the NVidia drivers (580.x)

Meanwhile, I solved my problem another way. I wipe everything (I have 4 backups! + another laptop) and reinstalled manjaro but this time I used the xfce edition with x11. So far things look fine.

It looks like the problem with 610 and sleeping/wake problem only happens under wayland. 610 + x11 seems to be working fine.

Thanks

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In that case, I guess we can close the thread. :man_shrugging:

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sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-580xx

Or use Manjaro Settings Manager - Hardware Detection

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In a previous post, I mentioned that my nvidia 4060 mobile and the 610 driver serie would crash with wayland.

Now, I have it working. Nvidia provides a program that will tell what to install:

$ nvidia-driver-assistant

It informs of what is needed to install.

$ nvidia-driver-assistant --list-supported-distros
The following are the currently accepted distribution aliases:
  amzn
  debian
  ubuntu
  fedora
  kylin
  azurelinux
  rhel
  rocky
  ol
  opensuse
  sles
  manjaro
  arch

and

$ nvidia-driver-assistant 
Detected GPUs:
  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU - (pci_id 0x28E0)

Detected system:
  Manjaro Linux 

Please copy and paste the following command to install the open kernel module flavour:
  sudo pacman -S linux71-nvidia-open

and it works. Here it is:

$ kinfo
Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.8-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 22 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 185H
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® Arc
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2

Hopefully, this will help other people having problems installing nvidia drivers.

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I think using pacman to install the GPU driver isn’t the recommended way on Manjaro. There is a wiki page how to do it