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nvidia-utils breaks nvidia (pacman upgrade issue) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I recommend switching to nvidia-dkms which will auto rebuild the module for every kernel and lets you update them independently of each other.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it work with modesetting, where Nvidia is the only video driver?

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago

It's a drop-in replacement for the nvidia package. AFAIK there are zero differences in functionality. The only change is it being built locally by DKMS instead of coming pre-built.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Perfect -- this solved the issue completely for me

sudo pacman -Sy linux-lts nvidia-dkms
## removes nvidia

[–] fhoekstra@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know my Pop!_OS install pulls Nvidia drivers and modules using flatpak. I don't know the pros and cons of this method, but I've assumed it's more robust due to decoupling of dependencies.

What is your opinion on flatpak vs pacman for proprietary Nvidia drivers?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I am philosophically against duplicating similar libraries, so I don't use flatpak. Insufferable, I know