The nvidia 390 series driver will not be installed by the installer.
So I don’t think reinstalling helps with the graphics drivers.
I see… So, regrettably, all that leaves is changing distro…
The 390-dkms version was installed with yay? 
Or… you can delay updating your kernel until nvidia-390xx-dkms and nvidia-390xx-utils receive an update on the AUR. @jonathon usually does that as soon as a patch for the new kernel is made available.
It’s a good idea to keep both linux and linux-lts installed, if one cannot boot, the other almost certainly will.
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Yeah, it didn’t work.
Guess I’ll disable my nvidia GPU for now then. Then will decide on what to do later.
I see. Will install that too.
it is an older system so it should work with bumblebee the gpu is listed as tested also there:
But am i right that we removed 390 legacy from nvidia-installer-dkms? @manuel?
I do not remember this anymore… so it could work to force install with bumblebee option and after this replacing default nvidia drivers and apps with the 390-legacy ones.
sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -f -b
That Optimus link is even showing my discrete GPU as an example! Best hope it works…
This is what you’ll get with your card:
$ nvidia-installer-check 0fe4
Your graphics card (id: 0fe4) is supported by the nvidia-390xx-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card:
* Use the --force option with nvidia-installer-dkms.
* Then, BEFORE rebooting, install nvidia-390xx-dkms from the AUR.
For example:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms
So, try what the above suggests, in the installed system:
nvidia-installer-dkms --force
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms
and then reboot.
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after this before reboot install the legacy drivers and tools:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils nvidia-390xx-settings lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
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Joe’s suggestion to add bumblebee is very likely even better.
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Ok, so
worked. It installed. But,
when doing this, I got nvidia-utils and nvidia-390xx-utils are in conflict, remove nvidia-utils?
What do I do?
Yes, remove packages that are in conflict (in this case, you want to install nvidia-390xx-utils, so let it remove nvidia-utils).
when you are done, you should run dkms status to check that everything is installed properly, before you reboot. It should say something like:
~$ dkms status
nvidia, 390.141, 5.10.24-1-lts, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 390.141, 5.11.7-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
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lol
I did yes, and now it say removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=460.67' required by nvidia-dkms
Run
pacman -Q | grep nvidia
What does it return?
lib32-nvidia-utils 460.67-1
nvidia-dkms 460.67-1
nvidia-installer-db 2.4.17-1
nvidia-installer-dkms 3.3.8-3
nvidia-settings 460.67-1
nvidia-utils 460.67-1
Run:
sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-dkms nvidia-installer-db nvidia-installer-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils
Then:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils nvidia-390xx-settings lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
And finally
dkms status
And type here what it returned.
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should work if you remove them sudo pacman -R nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings
and then install:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils nvidia-390xx-settings lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
as bumblebee only depends optional on nvidia drivers
Okay. So. I did sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -f -b and it worked, sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-dkms nvidia-installer-db nvidia-installer-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils worked too, and then so did yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils nvidia-390xx-settings lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils.
And now finally:
bbswitch, 0.8, 5.11.7-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 390.141, 5.11.7-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
Do I reboot now?
Yes, keeping your fingers crossed.
Went back to looping at the login screen…
I think I’ll just go to bed now. And install something else tomorrow.
a huge thank you to everyone in this thread <3