Blinking cursor during boot after latest update, I temporarily fixed it

[jonathon]

There are a few potential things to look at. First, the Arch wiki page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

Second, the nvidia-installer package (or nvidia-installer-dkms) should be able to install and configure the correct driver for you.

Third, nvidia-340xx is an AUR package so might end up breaking when repo packages are updated. You might need to to wait until the package is updated (e.g. for kernel 5.8).

[FAQ] An AUR package stopped working after an update

The normal reasons Generally, there will be two reasons why an AUR package has “stopped working”: A repo package was updated and the AUR package was built against an older (and incompatible) version of that repo package; The AUR package was updated and requires a repo package version not present on your system. The solutions to these: Rebuild the AUR package. Update your system fully. The other reasons The other, less frequent reasons, are The package file (PKGBUILD) has an issue and nee…