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monksy

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Registered: 2013-12-30

Posts: 23

Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

I just upgraded to 4.20.10 and the performance of my system just really went to nothing. The CPU and Memory usage were low.

The only updates that had come through that could have done this were the kernel update. I downgraded to 4.20.7 (Last installed) and I tried to reinstall the Nvidia driver.

However, the Nvidia driver is still trying to build as the 4.20.10 kernel and won't start anymore.

> [  528.576118] nvidia: version magic '4.20.5-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '4.20.7-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload '

Both Linux and Linux-headers are at 4.20.7 and I'm using the standard Arch linux kernel release.

How can I force Nvidia to build to the right thing? I can't find any instances of the .10 release kernel on my filesystem. (Other than in the pacman cache)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,931

Re: Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

Either use nvidia-dkms instead of nvidia or downgrade nvidia to 415.27-5.

monksy

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Registered: 2013-12-30

Posts: 23

Re: Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

I've downgraded the driver as well to:

pacman -Qs:

> extra/nvidia 415.27-3
>     NVIDIA drivers for linux
> extra/nvidia-utils 415.27-1
>     NVIDIA drivers utilities

And I've had the same issue

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,931

Re: Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

Either use nvidia-dkms instead of nvidia or downgrade nvidia to 415.27-5.

I've downgraded the driver as well to:

pacman -Qs:

> extra/nvidia 415.27-3
>     NVIDIA drivers for linux
> extra/nvidia-utils 415.27-1
>     NVIDIA drivers utilities

And I've had the same issue

nvidia 415.27-3 is not nvidia 415.27-5

monksy

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Registered: 2013-12-30

Posts: 23

Re: Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

How would I do that if it's not in the pacman cache?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,931

Re: Issues wtih getting the Nvidia driver to rebuild for an earlier kernel

Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_downgrade_one_package
Edit:
You can obtain linux 4.20.8 and 4.20.9 the same way to find the first kernel with the issue.

Last edited by loqs (2019-02-21 21:08:05)