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radumitrescu

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Registered: 2022-05-17

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[SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

Until today's update I was using nvidia-515.43.04-2 and nvidia-prime with 5.18.1-arch1-1
and everything was running great, but after updating to nvidia-515.48.07-7 I can no longer use my GPU.

I've tried running mkinitcpio -g IMAGE after updating, but it does not work. I think I remember reading somewhere one needs to force update the kernel when updating nvidia, but I can't remember how that is done.

For now, I have restored a timeshift backup from earlier today so I can use my system.

What am I missing?

Last edited by radumitrescu (2022-06-07 17:34:04)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

You do not need to force update the kernel. You do need to rebuild the initramfs *if* you have added the module to it, but you can do that with mkinitcpio. Not sure why you would write something to a file called IMAGE, though, you need to generate for the preset for your kernel, or for all presets.

radumitrescu

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Registered: 2022-05-17

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

Not sure why you would write something to a file called IMAGE

Because when I did just mkinitcpio it said it just did a dry run and suggested I do -g IMAGE to write an actual image. It would appear I misunderstood something.

You do need to rebuild the initramfs *if* you have added the module to it

How do I do this?

Last edited by radumitrescu (2022-06-07 16:02:17)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … generation
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

There's also help output and man page.

radumitrescu

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-515.48.07-7 breaks NVIDIA

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … generation
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

Thank you.

mkinitcpio -P did it.

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