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Dark-90

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Registered: 2023-11-06

Posts: 5

[SOLVED]New Nvidia driver update broke the driver

Using NVIDIA 2070 Super, driver upgraded to 545.29.02-2, My video card isn't recognized anymore, and I can't play video games or do anything, and when I open system information on KDE plasma I get the graphics processor as llvmpipe.

Using nvidia-smi I get:
bash: nvidia: command not found

Using lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" :

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

tried installing Nvidia-all package but refused to be installed, tried downgrading and that didn't work, tried doing an update again and the same happened, rebooted multiple times to no avail.

What can be done more? I am very new to Arch and never faced this before...

Solved: Apparently it seems like installing the latest package does not regenerate initramfs for some reason, and doing it manually with

sudo mkinitcpio -P

fixes the issue, it works now.

Last edited by Dark-90 (2023-11-06 19:46:40)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]New Nvidia driver update broke the driver

avoid nvidia-all at all costs. You're lucky it refused to intsall.

Do you have the nvidia modules in the initramfs, either via the modules array or the kms hook? If so, did you rebuild the initramfs to get the new modules included?

Dark-90

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Registered: 2023-11-06

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]New Nvidia driver update broke the driver

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Last edited by Dark-90 (2023-11-06 19:13:36)

Dark-90

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Registered: 2023-11-06

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]New Nvidia driver update broke the driver

avoid nvidia-all at all costs. You're lucky it refused to intsall.

Thank god nvidia-all didn't work then

Do you have the nvidia modules in the initramfs, either via the modules array or the kms hook? If so, did you rebuild the initramfs to get the new modules included?

Yes, I have the Nvidia modules in the initramfs, via the hooks. but I didn't do any rebuilding afterward, do I need to do that? and how can I do it?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED]New Nvidia driver update broke the driver

Yes, I have the Nvidia modules in the initramfs, via the hooks. but I didn't do any rebuilding afterward, do I need to do that? and how can I do it?

Please see NVIDIA#Early_loading.