EccTM@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit muchEnglish
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7 months agoNvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?
You can just add a pacman hook that triggers mkinitcpio -P
after the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I’ve never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update… maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI’s though.
I’m usually using
nvidia-beta
drivers from AUR because they’re newer, so I just added the hook as an insurance policy.The DKMS drivers are probably the safer option because they’ll handle rebuilding the kernel modules. Even though (like EddyBot said) the kernel and nvidia packages are supposed to get updated together, sometimes you can spam
pacman -Syu
at the wrong time and only one package is updated and things go wonky…