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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.

@drankinatty: We are lucky - for now: the official 6.11 (6.11.0) (official flavor, xanmod) is building fine the driver.

The desktop freeze is more and more frequent, though; I read that it has spread to more recent driver versions and it impacts more powerfull cards. I believe it is an unfortunate mix of kernel changes, resistance to these changes at the driver code plus some systemd quircks that are purposefully hard to isolate.

I think Nvidia is following other priorities - end-user sales are not bringing enough revenue to satisfy their appetite...

I will end up replacing my old and faithful laptop and I will stay away from Nvidia.

Minisforum here I go ... ;-)

Well, I'm cautiously optimistic we will have another minor version update to the kernel without a patch required like the 6.8 -> 6.9 update. I've been looking (see nvidia-390xx-utils 390.157-12) for a couple days and all I've uncovered is runtime issues on Fedora with green-screen problems, but no build time problems or patches in the normal spots (herecura git repository, nvidia dev forums, etc..). Fingers crossed.

The 6.11 kernel release is getting closer; on my side, I could compile the nvidia-470xx modules without any additional change - latest RC at this time is RC7.

Is this the case four you also ?

Finally, we have a patch that works !

Big thank you to philmmanjaro who posted the patch on the NVidia forum.

With this patch I build successfully the kernel modules on:

• 6.6.41

• 6.9.10

• 6.10

Hopefully it works for all of you out there ..

Heads-up: kernel 6.10 does not play nice with our current driver version (470.256.02); I'm still evaluating the patch required to make it work.

Update: a post on Nvidia forum has been created, in search of a solution.

@SoftExpert it works actually. Now my system doesnt crash when it goes sleep with the stremio/vlc is open

@SoftExpert it works actually. Now my system doesnt crash when it goes sleep with the stremio/vlc is open

@parsaazari: I thought you wanted to make it work, not disable it ... But if you found what you were looking for, then that's what matters. Cheers !

@SoftExpert the soloution was systemctl disable nvidia-suspend.service

@parsaazari: I see the exception in the trace you shared. The following part is interesting: Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. CX61 0NC/CX61 0ND/CX61 0NF/CX61 0NE/MS-16GB, BIOS E16GBIMS.406 10/10/2012.

I found a forum post which is marked as solved, and the solution was to update the bios.

Based on this finding, I'm inclined to say your BIOS is too old and very likely contains bugs or, at least, is not playing nice with the more recent code thet the kernel and systemd want executed.

I would try to find an update for the BIOS; if your motherboard is MSI, have you checked the corresponding forum ?

With BIOS updates you must be very careful - wrong version or command could brick your system.