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For the beginners in need of assistance, first take a look at this recommended guide https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide - maybe it helps to solve the issues your are having with this version of the driver.

The only problems i encounter are when running things (DotA 2 mostly) in vulkan... to be fair i haven't got wine/proton or any of the other "use windows dota 2 install from within Linux" working quite yet; i tried a couple times and ended up with it not working and/or breaking things. So far i limp along playing dota2 with the normal steam runtime in Linux using vulkan as the Valve people say SHOULD WORK... and it mostly works but this particular old driver (or my Asus GTX660 Ti 2g) i think has some kind of issue with vulkan (it ran everything else including Dota2 in directex and OGL just fine) the result of which is often a segfault error 14 or 15 in cpu whatever or another error every hour or so... sometimes far more often. it happens just changing menus within the game and then sometimes during a match when a lot of particles or something go off and about 1/10 times the game freezes (later logs showing the segfault), it actaully pops up a steam error msg saying something to do with vulkan failing. *8 I've spent 3 months trying to trouble shoot this, so i could get Dota2 working stable in Linux, so i've tried a bunch of things and from narrowing things down, i am fairly sure it's something to do with how vulkan, Dota2 and nvidia (driver and/or card) interact.* i've read all the things from the nvidia site, the valve dota2 and Linux github bug report sites, reddit and everywhere else i could find; trying out any of 30-40 different things that might work to fix my freeze issue. *Lately i'm starting to learn to use debug programs and read C -_- but i dont really have time to do all that... just ran some basic Valgrind and gbd stuff to try and get more info in case someone could use it to help find the problem.

6.15 is out, and I've had no trouble compiling or running anything so far. My GT 645M still works fine in nvidia-smi, vkcube, and wine+dxvk.

When update/apply/install nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.256.02-7.98, seeing some error msgs (Garuda with several kernel installed after fresh XFCE/nouveau install pre-nvidia driver install): "Error Bad return status for module build on kernel" (kernels: Linux-Lts515, Linux-Lts61), or "ERROR: Missing kernel modules tree for module nvidia/470xx no depmod linux-6.14.9" (latest Linux & zen1 kernel which is either 6.14.9 or 6.14.10?)

Result is things breaking [like in the past iterations of this driver, and/or a non-functional driver for my GTX660 Ti 2gb when running Linux Garuda XFCE (; monitor not recognized & locked into low resolution, driver not activating so nouveau fallback being used ... often with additional issues, the edges of the screen not being fit to the monitor properly, or the display just not running at all).

EDIT: FIXED (mostly?) What i did: avoided getting any recent kernel and/or kernel headers updates from garuda-update (most kernel options tested with Rani kernel installer are working fine with nouveau driver). Installed these nvidia 470xx driver files (dkms + utils + lib32) using the standard sudo pacman -S (note errors as mentioned above, and turn fbdev+modeset=1 on in GRUB as per korvahnnu). 470xx is installed but the monitor is not recognized + resolution broken as mentioned above. used Garuda-update to apply the kernel/headers updates [that were waiting] skipped earlier, and test a kernel that had no error msg so far... and bing-bang-boom, bingo! it's ALIVE !

Thank you, @SoftExpert. I can confirm that the last version (470.256.02-7.98) compiles ok in my system for my old GeForce GTX 760 with 6.14.4-arch1-2 kernel.

Hello everyone,

I pushed an update containing the latest patch for kernel 6.15 from Joan B.; I have modified it just to add the option +ccflags-y += -std=gnu17 - which might work (or not).

It definitely requires a lot of testing; perhaps Joan will come up with additional changes that we will add in further releases.

Joan seems unhappy about the quality of the current patch (his comment indicates this: EDIT 20250426: I don't believe that this patch is clean: the VMA flags piggybacks on previous calls to acquire the VMA lock, which is very hacky, and most likely doesn't happen 100% of the time and in all code paths. )

Please test carefully and assume it could break your setup - so plan accordingly.

@gbr - Thanks for the patch!

@Sinyria, @cysp74, @SoftExpert - could you kindly update the package to include mentioned fix?

@gbr: Thanks for the patch, now the card works better than ever.