Arch Linux User Repository

For testing users, contributors: check out https://github.com/archlinux-jerry/nvidia-340xx
Warning: force push may happen to match the aur tree

Back in March on 5.11, people were having luck with GTK based greeters but Qt based ones weren't working (e.g. SDDM). So Googling around the error that @jayache80 reported, I found some references to people having weird problems with Qt that were fixed with setting QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 in someplace like /etc/environment. Maybe this explains why some people have luck and some don't? I'll admit that this is far-fetched, but it might be worth a shot given that it is low effort to try. The rabbit hole I went down are in the links below. Disabling the nvidia splash screen with Option "NoLogo" "1" in xorg.conf might not help, but it wouldn't hurt either.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=53653

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=53603&start=10

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2423870

I think that linux arch users who use this module have been running on linux-lts since the arrival of the latest 5.11.x and 5.12.x kernels with which for me this module has never been operational ..... I read the comments every day while waiting for the miracle solution. Have a good day and good luck everyone.

This is the change I make to compile for Manjaro, I believe that there is no significant change that I have not reported here before.

I'm not sure what I can do with your reply. You're modifying the PKGBUILD I provide to build without dkms on a foreign distro and you're reporting that it works. You're not sharing the code you're using to do this so it's impossible to make a comparison back to help users of Arch build via dkms.

What if you uninstall your non-dkms tweaked package and try building with this unmodified. Does that build? If so do it give a functional module?

Yes, they abandoned it, but I am using this package as a base to build one for Manjaro.

This driver is starting/working with the Manjaro (Gnome) 5.12 kernel and the Zen kernel (compiled locally).

As I mentioned before, I use this package as a base, since small changes are needed to compile the non-dkms module in Manjaro.

Greetings.

I am unfamiliar with manjaro but I thought they dropped this driver a while ago. Are you using the 5.12 kernel there where you report a functional driver? Is it this package you're using to build the kernel module?

@graysky could you tell me a test to make sure everything is fine with the 5.12 kernel?

In Manjaro Gnome the system starts and I don't have the problems reported by @jayache80. In Plasma I can only start via startx on tty2, I haven't tested it with Xfce.

Greetings.

OK, if this doesn't give a functional module for the 5.12 series of kernels, we need to either 1) identify someone else's work to fix it (ie a patch from another distro or person), or 2) we need someone with expertise to fix it for us. I am not that someone nor do I have any hardware for testing.

I can confirm 2). Tested yesterday. My machine (xfce4) stills runs on Linux 5.11.7 without any issues though.

So there are two independent issues:

1) The patch shared by @qileilu is for the 460 series of drivers and not applicable to this version. 2) The package is-as does not work under 5.12.

Can someone else confirm point #2 is valid? If so, we will need to identify the reason why and see if a known fix is out there.