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Shaurul

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Registered: 2025-12-21

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[SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

Hello! This is my first post here. I started using Arch 3 month ago and I have a problem after the newest update for nvidia. I have an RTX 3050 Mobile (Optimus), so I’m not directly affected by the update since I don’t have a 10xx card. However, I had nvidia installed, and now I’m affected. When I installed the drivers manually (I didn't use archisntall), I installed more packages than necessary. I already had the following packages installed: lib32-nvidia-utils, linux-firmware-nvidia, nvidia, nvidia-lts, nvidia-prime, and nvidia-utils, and the dGPU was working fine. When I tried to do pacman -Syu I had the following message:
:: Replace nvidia with extra/nvidia-open? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-utils (590.48.01-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=580.119.02' required by nvidia-lts

I know I should replace nvidia with nvidia-open and nvidia-lts with nvidia-open-lts, but I don't know in which order I should do the following commandes:
sudo pacman -Rns nvidia nvidia-lts
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts
sudo mkinitcpio -P
reboot

or

sudo pacman -Rns nvidia nvidia-lts
sudo pacman -S nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts
sudo mkinitcpio -P
reboot
sudo pacman -Syu

Also tell me, if I missed something to mention or a extra command I should do. Thank you!
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Solution:
sudo pacman -Rns nvidia-lts
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S nvidia-open-lts

Last edited by Shaurul (2025-12-21 19:30:26)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

so I’m not directly affected by the update since I don’t have a 10xx card

Wrong, you are affected as the proprietary driver has been dropped to AUR now and the open one is the only nvidia driver left in repos.

Use

pacman -Syu nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts lib32-nvidia-open lib32-nvidia-open-lts

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Shaurul

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Registered: 2025-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

Sorry, but I already mentioned which packages I have installed on my laptop: lib32-nvidia-utils, linux-firmware-nvidia, nvidia, nvidia-lts, nvidia-prime, and nvidia-utils. I can't do pacman -Syu nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts lib32-nvidia-open lib32-nvidia-open-lts, because I don’t have nvidia-open or nvidia-open-lts installed. My question in the main post is about the proper order to uninstall nvidia and nvidia-lts and replace them with nvidia-open and nvidia-open-lts.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

Have you tried that command ?
If yes, post the output it gives.
If not, try it and post the output.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-12-21 20:29:20)

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Shaurul

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Registered: 2025-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

I tried the command, and it said it couldn’t find nvidia-open and nvidia-open-lts. I can’t reproduce it anymore because I’ve already solved my problem. I marked the question as solved and posted my solution in the main post.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

Understood, thanks for the clarification.

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jongeduard

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Registered: 2022-01-06

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

Hi, I'm having very similar issues on a system here, no difference between running `sudo pacman -Syu` or `sudo pacman -Syyuu`:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace nvidia with extra/nvidia-open? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-utils (590.48.01-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=580.105.08' required by nvidia-lts

The way I'm reading the current news article "NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules" is that I should not have to perform an any extra intervention _unless_ I want to stay at the proprietary driver.
However, reality turns out to be different.

So this is looks like a bug (please explain if it's not and why).

A few days ago (on another system) I was having a similar issue with nvidia-utils as well, because a newer version of it was kept for too long in Extra-Testing while they already moved the linux-lts and nvidia-lts to Extra.
(I checked it by package search on the website, so that's how I knew that it wasn't me)
So I had to do an `--ignore` for these in order to be able to update.

So that was also an error made by maintainers.

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

For some reason the nvidia-open-lts package no longer "replaces" the nvidia-lts package (instead it now just replaces itself). This does seem like a packaging error. Open a ticket on the bug tracker.

In the meantime, Lone_Wolf gave a workaround in #2

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StarWolf3000

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Re: [SOLVED]Switching nvidia to nvidia-open on RTX 3050Mobile after update

For some reason the nvidia-open-lts package no longer "replaces" the nvidia-lts package (instead it now just replaces itself). This does seem like a packaging error. Open a ticket on the bug tracker.

Added to bugtracker: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/2
Feel free to supply more information I will then add to the ticket.

Last edited by StarWolf3000 (2025-12-22 12:34:38)

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Mainboard: GIGABYTE B550 AORUS ELITE V2 | CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32 GB
GPU: GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB (580.119.02 proprietary) | Display: BenQ BL2405 1920x1080
Kernel: 6.18.8 stable | Boot Manager: GRUB2 | DE: KDE Plasma | Login Manager: SDDM | Compositor: KWin