Nvidia driver screen blinks

General system Newbie
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Tyyy. Everything’s working fine. I just had to install lib32-nvidia-utils before installing it, so that I could install steam afterwards.

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And how did you add these packages to the exception? I added “#IgnorePkg = linux linux-headers nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils” to /etc/pacman.conf, but I am still prompted to update these packages

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Remove the initial # character on that IgnorePkg line. :wink:

Seriously, ignoring updates of essential packages like kernel and GPU driver can be only a short time workaround since there will be other issues later on.

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Thank you. It’s temporary. Until nvidia fixes the problem.

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i’ve been thinking of temporally unistalling my gtx 1650 to buy-install a Sapphire Pulse RX 6400 instead

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And why did you downgrade the kernel version? The driver’s minimum system requirements state that you can use kernel version 3.10 or newer

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i just tried driver 530 with latest linux kernel yesterday and it would not boot into the desktop

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If I knew I was going to use linux as my main system, I would have bought a Radeon RX 5700 instead of the 2060 super :sweat_smile:

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i just wish i could downgrade to nvidia 525 but then it wont boot to my desktop, does anyone knows if it’s possible to downgrade to nvidia 525 ? unfornatelly latest drivers still gives flickering on my desktop

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I’m not sure if you can downgrade this way? Not sure also if you have nvidia-settings installed?

sudo downgrade nvidia nvidia-utils

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i have all these installed

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Ok i managed to get nvidia 525 drivers to work, i had to downgrade linux and linux-headers to 6.2.13, nvidia drivers → 525.89.02-2
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16brazv/how_do_i_downgrade_to_either_nvidia_driver/

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You should have been able to do it in all one command?

sudo downgrade nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

Edit: Sorry i made an error which i corrected.

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yes i guess that might be the best way, problem is i didnt know the correct linux kernel to work with that driver

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As long as you know the version number and then select it.

Edit: It would do each one at a time.

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yes this was the command i used

 sudo downgrade linux linux-headers nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils

i like to use the mouse click to select the packages to downgrade, i find easier that way

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I didn’t realize you were using dkms as you posted here 22 days later. It would be much better if you had created a topic for your specific issue so as to provide that info. But hopefully you have it working.