Nvidia v620 may not be ready

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I have it installed via the CachyOS repos. Several users, including myself, have suffered complete system freezes with this driver:

Hopefully a fix is coming soon…

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Thanks for the heads up, will skip the update for now.

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It just hit the Testing repos.

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Yeah i know i have those enabled.

lib32-nvidia-utils 615.78.08-1 → 620.70.06-1
libxnvctrl 615.78.08-1 → 620.70.06-1
nvidia-open-dkms 615.78.08-2 → 620.70.06-1
nvidia-settings 615.78.08-1 → 620.70.06-1
nvidia-utils 615.78.08-2 → 620.70.06-1

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Been doing a bit of gaming today, haven’t had any issues with the new driver yet.

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Kernel updates to 7.3 and nvidia update to 6.20 installing. Rebooting momentarily. Wish me luck.

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Installed, rebooted, chose the main kernel, logged in, no issues so far.

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What about freezing during gaming ?

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Played a bit of Cyberpunk 2077 for about 20 minutes. No issues. I’ll test further over the weekend on all three of my kernels.

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I’d recommend not updating to the new kernel and new NVIDIA drivers just yet, as a new version that fixes some issues is already in the testing branch and will be released in the next few days – perhaps even hours. It’ll just be a case of updating only to have to update again… Specifically:

Regular:


core/linux                   7.2.15.arch1-1   7.3.4.arch1-1       -10,19 MiB             151,08 MiB
core/linux-lts               6.18.62-1        6.18.63-2             0,09 MiB             155,55 MiB
extra/nvidia-open            615.78.08-6      620.70.06-2          -0,33 MiB               9,38 MiB
extra/nvidia-open-lts        1:615.78.08-12   1:620.70.06-3        -0,30 MiB               9,40 MiB

Testing:

core-testing/linux               7.2.15.arch1-1   7.3.4.arch1-2       -10,20 MiB             151,08 MiB
core-testing/linux-lts           6.18.62-1        6.18.63-3             0,08 MiB             155,55 MiB
extra-testing/nvidia-open        615.78.08-6      620.70.06-3          -0,33 MiB               9,38 MiB
extra-testing/nvidia-open-lts    1:615.78.08-12   1:620.70.06-4        -0,30 MiB               9,40 MiB

Cheers.

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Due to the latest developments in the nVidia world,

I was wondering when that life-changing feature that Jenson Huang has implemented will hit the repos ?
There seems to be a fine line, I would be totally happy with the upgrade of the end users martial status but without the bagage (i.e. kids), avoiding the stressful part, even if potentially exiciting (spies) and I’m definitely not interested in the disgusting part (extra martial affairs with subordinates). And would like to exclude the merge of the leather jacket, for sure… even if may look cool.

:clown_face:

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I played 2 full games of eBaseball Pro Spirit, about an hour of Detroit: Become Human, and about 30 minutes of Mafia: Definitive Edition. Zero issues.

─❯ uname -r
7.3.4-arch1-1
─❯

─❯ pacman -Q | grep -i nvidia
lib32-nvidia-utils 620.70.06-1
lib32-opencl-nvidia 620.70.06-1
libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.18-1
linux-firmware-nvidia 20261019-1
nvidia-hook 1.5.3-1
nvidia-inst 26.1.1-1
nvidia-open-dkms 620.70.06-1
nvidia-settings 620.70.06-1
nvidia-utils 620.70.06-1
opencl-nvidia 620.70.06-1
─❯
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620 actually broke my laptop; the system began hanging on shutdown and losing the dGPU on suspend/wake until I reverted to 615.

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Well i know enough, reading the nvidia forums and here made me decide to not install it. Will add it temporarily in my ignore list.

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So far, everything I’ve thrown at 620 has had zero issues (gaming or otherwise). No freezes or stuttering.

So I figured I’d throw something else at it. What is supposed to be quite the demanding game. On sale via Steam, so I got it. I’ll post back my experience later.

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That’s generally not a good idea on Arch. Kernel updates are coordinated with rebuilds of supported kernel driver packages, including NVIDIA, for a reason. The 7.3.4-arch1-1 kernel update already came with the corresponding NVIDIA 620.70.06 packages.

You can try using DKMS to rebuild an older driver against a newer kernel, but that doesn’t guarantee compatibility and isn’t really the ideal solution.

If you’d rather wait before moving to 620, it’s safer to hold back the kernel too (or keep the whole system unchanged for a while) than to update the kernel while ignoring the NVIDIA driver.

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dkms is installed by default. Skipping a version is not that bad. Also the older 580 driver is also still supported in the current kernel.

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Oke i just updated to check/test what it will do with my system. Fingers crossed

[michel@michel-crosshair15b12ugsz]$ uname -r 
7.3.4-arch1-2 
[michel@michel-crosshair15b12ugsz]$ pacman -Q | grep -i nvidia 
lib32-nvidia-utils 620.70.06-1 
linux-firmware-nvidia 20261019-1 
nvidia-hook 1.5.3-1 
nvidia-inst 26.1.1-1 
nvidia-open-dkms 620.70.06-1 
nvidia-settings 620.70.06-1 
nvidia-utils 620.70.06-1

Edit: Played on steam for 1 hour Wolfenstein the new order, no issues to report. I also checked if there are any nvidia issues in the logs, cannot find anything.

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@MichelN well so I try it this evenig too and see what happens.
@UncleSpellbinder running almost the same graphic card as you (RTX 360 12 GB VRAM) I hope it works well for me too. :grimacing:

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The only thing i notice now is that my power button stays orange which means nvidia (dgpu) is in use during idle stuff. Earlier the button whas white when not in use (igpu)

it seems something related to kwin_wayland

[michel@michel-crosshair15b12ugsz ~]$ sudo fuser -v /dev/nvidia*
[sudo] wachtwoord voor michel: 
                     GEBRUIKER   PID SOORT PROGRAMMA
/dev/nvidia0:        michel    22717 F...m kwin_wayland
/dev/nvidiactl:      michel    22717 F...m kwin_wayland
/dev/nvidia-modeset: michel    22717 F.... kwin_wayland