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ribbon

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Registered: 2025-11-11

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Nvidia driver failing on Xorg after Syu upgrade to 580.105.08-1

Certain graphical programs are misbehaving after a `pacman -Syu` upgrade on 11/11/25

Among other packages, proprietary nvidia drivers were upgraded for my 1070ti:

[2025-11-11T07:50:05-0700] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia (580.95.05-7 -> 580.105.08-1)

Here is my output when running glxgears

[ribbon@hostname ~]$ glxgears
pci id for fd 4: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
pci id for fd 5: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
pci id for fd 6: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
1605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.849 FPS
1308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 261.572 FPS
1099 frames in 5.0 seconds = 219.677 FPS
1940 frames in 5.0 seconds = 387.992 FPS
1647 frames in 5.0 seconds = 329.309 FPS

Here is my output when running Godot 4.5

[ribbon@hostname vendor_godot]$ ./Godot_v4.5-stable_linux.x86_64 
Godot Engine v4.5.stable.official.876b29033 - https://godotengine.org
pci id for fd 12: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
pci id for fd 13: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
pci id for fd 14: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
pci id for fd 12: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
MESA: error: dri3_alloc_render_buffer:1628 xcb_dri3_fence_from_fd failed
MESA: error: X error: 8
Found discrete GPU, setting DRI_PRIME=1 to use it.
Note: Set DRI_PRIME=0 in the environment to disable Godot from using the discrete GPU.
pci id for fd 10: 10de:1b82, driver (null)
MESA: error: dri3_alloc_render_buffer:1628 xcb_dri3_fence_from_fd failed
MESA: error: X error: 8
OpenGL API 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.6-arch1.1 - Compatibility - Using Device: AMD - AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor (radeonsi, raphael_mendocino, LLVM 21.1.4, DRM 3.64, 6.17.7-arch1-1)

MESA: error: dri3_alloc_render_buffer:1628 xcb_dri3_fence_from_fd failed
MESA: error: X error: 8

Here is my pacman -Qs nvidia

local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.20-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-x11 1.0.3-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 580.105.08-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20251021-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia 580.105.08-1
    NVIDIA kernel modules
local/nvidia-utils 580.105.08-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

Certain KDE graphical features such as the transition animation between desktops is broken and the quick access "start" menu is translucent which is unusual.

Do I need to downgrade this package?

Last edited by ribbon (2025-11-11 18:10:57)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Nvidia driver failing on Xorg after Syu upgrade to 580.105.08-1

Running on Xorg, I assume. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=309874

ribbon

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Registered: 2025-11-11

Posts: 3

Re: Nvidia driver failing on Xorg after Syu upgrade to 580.105.08-1

Running on Xorg, I assume. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=309874

Yes. My last upgrade before this was on October 18th. These are the xorg upgrades done today:

[ribbon@hostname log]$ cat pacman.log | grep "xorg"
*snip*
[2025-11-11T07:50:01-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:01-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xwayland (24.1.8-1 -> 24.1.9-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:06-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:08-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:08-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xephyr (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:08-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xnest (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:08-0700] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xvfb (21.1.18-2 -> 21.1.20-1)
[2025-11-11T07:50:20-0700] [ALPM] running 'xorg-mkfontscale.hook'...

I will check out this thread. Thank you

ribbon

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Registered: 2025-11-11

Posts: 3

Re: Nvidia driver failing on Xorg after Syu upgrade to 580.105.08-1

I understand now this is a part of a documented regression: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xse … MzIwMH0%3D

downgrading via

pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/x/xorg-server/xorg-server-21.1.18-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

seems to alleviate the issue for now. Thanks!