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beelzebot

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Registered: 2021-11-26

Posts: 12

[Solved] GPU drivers broken after system update

Hello,

I haven't used my Arch Linux system in a while, yesterday I did a full system update for the first time in 13 months. After reboot, I now don't reach KDE any more, I'm stuck in console. On another system now, can't paste output directly, I'll do my best. Tried ChatGPT for a bit but hasn't helped.

SDDM service show the error "Failed to read display number from pipe. Display server stopping."

lsmod | grep -I nvidia returns nothing

modprobe nvidia returns that "The NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is not supported by open nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU System Processor (GSP)". nvidia-smi says the same thing. My GPU model is GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

When querying installed nvidia packages with pacman -Qs nvidia I get these results: egl-gbm egl-wayland egl-wayland2 egl-x11 lib32-nvidia-utils libvdpau libxnvctrl linux-firmware-nvidia nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils

AI told me to remove nvidia-open packages and use the official nvidia instead, but the actual nvidia isn't even available in my pacman, and nvidia-dkms appears to just redirect to nvidia-open-dkms anyway. Also several of the mirrors in my mirrorlist apparently aren't available any more, though the Sy operations still complete.

I'm at a loss right now, any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by beelzebot (2026-02-21 13:03:11)

hiciu

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Registered: 2010-08-11

Posts: 89

Re: [Solved] GPU drivers broken after system update

Hello,

I believe https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-d … l-modules/ will provide you with answers.

beelzebot

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Registered: 2021-11-26

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] GPU drivers broken after system update

Yes, after switching to the 580xx packages from the aur, the problem is now solved. Thank you!