I’m new in Manjaro (I installed today, my kernel is Linux 6.19) but I know reading some reddit messages, watching some videos (but many all them are old videos and messages) the latest kernel with manjaro stable isn’t for 390 nvidia drivers
But, so what is the lastest recommended kernel for nvidia 390 in 2025? I think i have 3 options kernel 5.4, kernel 5.10 or kernel 5.15 .
Thnks in advance
Edit1: nikgnomic helped me so much, but there are some details with this different Pc that makes kind of tricky to resolve the whole issue.
First, we have to run this instruction: mhwd -l --pci
And this:sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-390xx (Depending of the message before
Then if you some error message. Read all of those carefully and replace all of you can NEVER uninstall them. In my case the one I have to replace was libxnvcrt (the latest 590 for the accurate for my system 390)
And finally these command sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-390xx for my old Pc. Everything is ok now
I’ve found the answer of my own question… Well, This is a public forum so it’s possible someone would have this question later.
the answer is so easy. Well ,my previous OS was another fork of Linux, but that was based on Ubuntu 22.04 so according to Google, which Kernel it use by default? and that’s Kernel 5.15 so it’s really posible if i install this kernel on the latest Manjaro my old driver card will be not some waste metal in my pc
Thnks ,but… i tried to install a 390xx driver today with the lastest stable Manjaro with kernel 6.18 and it gave many error messages through Manjaro Settings.
Currently I installed kernel 5.15 .I only need to reset my Pc and watch if it’s possible to install that 390 driver
Sadly, I missed something .It gave me another error message Happily this time I copy and i can share that message:
Starting
> Using config ‘video-nvidia-390xx’ for device: 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:0f02) Display controller nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 730]
I’ve installed in another Linux forks but never on Manjaro with a mode without graphic card (I don’t remenber its name) and Perhaps I need to uninstall the nouveau graphic driver first it seems that’s the inteferance. Do you know those steps with Pacman
And currently , do you have 2 graphic drivers ,nouveau (the one by default) and your nvidia driver. So once my nvidia driver would be install i could uninstalled nouveau or that not necessary?
Well, i’ll try that… thanks
What I’m reading it seems “mhwd -i” is the similar to “get” and install at the same time in Ubuntu/Debian distros.
Thnks ,bro. I have something urgent to do in 30 mins I’ll share with this community if I could run 390 property driver with the lastest manjaro with my old Pc.
mhwd installs kernel-specific drivers, headers and tools for any kernels that are already installed on system
For example – My system has kernel 6.12 and 6.18, so mhwd would install linux612-nvidia-470xxlinux612-headers, linux618-nvidia-470xx and linux618-headers
I found a instruction to know the recommended graphic driver. so 390 is the only option with my graphic card .¿is that true?. And for example, your nvidia could support 390 drivers but you finally install 470drivers… It also says 470 in the instruction you share
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx . Sorry, but I didn’t notice that earlier.
Data shared from my system was for a similarly named GPU with a different architecture (Kepler)
Yes. The official list of legacy drivers shows that some GT 730 cards can use 470xx driver and some cannot
Your GPU has Product ID code 0F02 and is not supported by 470xx driver
Well, finally was kind of tricky because my system didn’t allow me to install my property drivers 390 with this instruction sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-390xx. Pacman gave me an error message that I have a 590nvidia plugin that depends on xfce4-sensors-plugin so I couldn’t install my 390 driver.
So, in the end Add/Remove software I install the old version (390) of libxnvcrt instead of the lastest by default. I run again the first instruction and all was ok. I’ll update the first message with a review
