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ronnylov

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Registered: 2010-12-21

Posts: 65

[SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

Had a similar issue today with sddm after upgrading to latest nvidia driver 440.44
It never started the graphical interface even though sddm.service was not reporting error.
Got a login prompt with Alt-Ctrl-F2. Then I downgraded nvidia and nvidia-utils to 440.36 and it worked again after reboot.

Last edited by ronnylov (2019-12-15 00:05:58)

Anarconda

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Registered: 2002-12-23

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

Yep .The new nvidia driver 440.44 seems to be compiled for a new kernel (5.4.3).

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CjK

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Registered: 2008-10-17

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

Yeah, somehow the new nvidia-package expects kernel 5.4.3 which is no out yet, so modules are not found by mkinitcpio.

Scary!

But downgrading nvidia + nvidia-utils seems to help.

Magbed

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

Same issue. Downgrading nvidia and nvidia-utils fixed it for me for the moment being.

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-440.36-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-440.36-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

The kernel has landed in core, wait for your mirrors to sync and update, please don't derail unrelated threads:

Split from: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251368

faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

I was in the same situation as everyone else and had to revert both nvidia and nvidia-utils as a temporary fix.

Just updated to 5.4.3 and can confirm everything works fine for me now.

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ronnylov

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Registered: 2010-12-21

Posts: 65

Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia 440.44 and kernel 5.4.3 version mismatch

Yes it works for me now after upgrading both linux kernel and nvidia packages.