| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-390xx-utils.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | nvidia-390xx-utils |
| Description: | NVIDIA drivers utilities |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.nvidia.com/ |
| Licenses: | custom |
| Conflicts: | nvidia-390xx-libgl, nvidia-libgl, nvidia-utils |
| Provides: | nvidia-390xx-libgl, nvidia-libgl, nvidia-utils, opengl-driver, vulkan-driver |
| Submitter: | svenstaro |
| Maintainer: | jonathon (vnctdj) |
| Last Packager: | vnctdj |
| Votes: | 62 |
| Popularity: | 0.089401 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-03-11 17:29 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-10-11 08:48 (UTC) |
See the latest development in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311487 It's probably necessary to link /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.390.157 against libpthread (although kitty has suspiciously special problems itr, not sure whether there's more at play here)
@vnctdj, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1946926 has been closed by a mod, do you want me to request it to be re-opened for this kind of stuff?
Anyone here facing issues with kitty terminal? I observe this, just checking if any of you have suggestions.
@vnctdj, sorry for the late reply. My laptop has Intel graphics disabled in the BIOS and there's no way to run it. It only runs on Nvidia graphics, so the Arch Wiki on Nvidia Optimus is useless to me. As for xinit, I've been using it from the start, and Xorg stopped starting when Archlinux abandoned the "drivers/firmware: skip simpledrm if nvidia-drm.modeset=1 is set" patch for its kernel. I compiled my own kernel with xanmod patches and added the above patch, and everything works as before. As a plus, after using modprobed-db, the Linux kernel now takes up 10 times less disk space than the standard one. As a minus, I have to compile it myself. When I have time to play around, I'll install lightdm and see if it works with the standard kernel.
Well, that is some welcome news! Thank you @aldolat for the testing and report. Three out of the last seven kernels, no patching required - I like that.
It looks like we're lucky this time! On my VirtualBox machine (which I use for testing), I upgraded to kernel 6.18 and didn't encounter any errors with the nvidia 390.157 package. Can anyone else confirm?
Well, this is either really good news, or not so good news. The 6.18 kernel just hit the testing repo and there is no 6.18 patch on Joan's page for the 470 driver. Hopefully this means there will be no patch required for 6.18? Has anybody tested with the 6.18 kernel yet?
@duht I also use startx to launch Xorg and doesn't use any display manager as I use i3. I don't use Bumblebee or any similar tool. I simply followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#Use_NVIDIA_graphics_only and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit . I hope it helps as that's what works on my laptop.
I attach a debug messages from driver, maybe this will be helpful.
@canolucas, how should I set up my machine, given that it's an Optimus laptop with a Fermi chip? Currently I still use Bumblebee. What packages I should have installed?
Thank you @drankinatty for your help, but adding nosimplefb=1 to kernel command line doesn't change anything. I already had nvidia-drm.modeset=1 set- without it, the system wouldn't boot properly. If you have any other ideas, I'd be happy to test them.
Pinned Comments
vnctdj commented on 2025-01-24 07:37 (UTC)
Use this forum thread for discussion: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1946926
jonathon commented on 2022-05-26 09:46 (UTC)
Please don't flag this package out-of-date unless a new version has been released by NVIDIA.
jonathon commented on 2021-12-26 22:44 (UTC) (edited on 2021-12-26 22:44 (UTC) by jonathon)
The DKMS package guidelines are explicit that
linux-headersshould not be a dependency of any DKMS package.As a concrete example of why including that as a hard dependency is a bad idea, what happens when
linuxis not an installed kernel?