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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.

Today I start getting this errors when trying to update.

==> Sources are ready.
nvidia-470xx-utils-470.239.06-1: parsing pkg list...
:: nvidia-470xx-utils-470.239.06-1 is up to date -- skipping build
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-470xx-utils (470.239.06-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-470xx-utils=470.223.02' required by nvidia-470xx-dkms
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-470xx-utils (470.239.06-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-470xx-utils=470.223.02' required by nvidia-470xx-dkms
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-470xx-utils (470.239.06-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-470xx-utils=470.223.02' required by nvidia-470xx-dkms
error: packages failed to build: lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils-470.239.06-1 (lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia-470xx)  nvidia-470xx-utils-470.239.06-1 (nvidia-470xx-dkms opencl-nvidia-470xx)

@gamezelda: Thanks for the heads-up ! I disabled for now the patch as it builds normally without it with the latest kernels.

I believe that you can drop the recent "kernel-6.1.76_6.6.15_6.7.3.patch" patch, as all affected kernels have newer releases (6.1.77, 6.6.16, 6.7.4) which include a commit "mm, kmsan: fix infinite recursion due to RCU critical section" that makes it unnecessary.

I have verified that the driver builds correctly for all kernels in the official repositories (i.e. linux{,-hardened,-lts,-rt,-rt-lts,-zen}) without the patch.

@SoftExper: Absolutely, I will do that. Thanks and the same to you!

@ChrispyChris: I'm glad you sorted it out! No apologies necessary, we all learn here. One less issue, one more positive outcome ! Try to help someone in need when the occasion arises. Have a wonderful day !

I'm sorry, I had thought I was still using this package but somehow my system was on the version in pacman. I ended up uninstalling that and cloning this directory again and then running the makepkg. After that, all was well. I should have checked my version in the first place, I apologize. I just didn't expect to not be using this repository still.

@ChrispyChris: You have several things to consider:

• your driver version is 470.199.02, although the latest is 470.223.02

• 470xx driver is stable since a long time, all releases only catch up with changes in the latest kernels

• the patch was created for 470.223.02

• there are differences in the source code between the versions of the driver

• you did not mention your version of the kernel you intend to use

• you seem to not use the package from this repository (which would download automatically everything needed)

Based on these observations, several questions arise:

• Are you even using an Arch-based distro ?

• Do you know what is the purpose of an AUR package ?

• Why are you not giving the full context of what you try to achieve? So far it sounds like "I'm doing this secret project that only I know about, and it doesn't work at step 4, can you help me with step 4 without knowing about it ?"

If you are using an Arch based distro, then just use this package for installing and maintaining the Nvidia driver. It uses DKMS, which allows to automatically rebuild your driver for each change in the kernel version. Kernels 6.1, 6.6 and 6.7 are guaranteed to work with it.

Otherwise, there is not much we can do to help you.

Hey, so I downloaded the singe file patch and gave it the location to each file it asked for after running "patch < /path/to/patch/file" and each file was located in /usr/src/nvidia-470.199.02. After this, I have been stuck. I tried to install with dkms but I might be lost on what I'm supposed to do after running through the patch. Could anyone please help me out here?

Heads-up: Latest kernel versions (6.1.76, 6.6.15 and 6.7.3) introduced an unexpected issue because of the GPL-only symbol __rcu_read_lock used by the nvidia.ko module.

A patch was provided - adapted from the Gentoo patch mentioned in this Nvidia Forum thread.

A big thank you to the Gentoo team !

Please test it carefully with the kernels mentioned. Effects on kernels other than the ones described are not known (patch is very recent).

@SoftExpert, thank you for your reply and suggestions! Yes, spontaneous reboots is a scary sign, and first I thought that hardware is dying, considering that it happens on an old school machine from the LGA775 era:) But, while sleeping, I tortured this machine continuously for several nights with memtest, mprime, gputest and badblocks - it always passes all tests with zero errors and no overheat. Also, there are no any problems with the LTS kernel (I didn't try 6.7.2 yet though). Anyway, this is not the right place to discuss such issues, I just wanted to ensure this is not related to Nvidia drivers. I will dig further, don't want to rip this machine, it's still damn good for certain tasks.