Starting version 249.3-1-arch

General system Newbie
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current speed is 0 so I don’t think its downloading anything.

any other work around or I have to download it to install?

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Okay then try ethernet.

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Is it downloading now?

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so it downloaded and then I got error message regarding nvidia-utils conflict with nvidia-dkms…

see attached. nvidia conflict

what should I do?

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Did you press y for yes to remove the nvidia-utils

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when it asked “Remove nvidia-utils?” I press y and then got error message

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Lets try this

nvidia-installer-dkms -n

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command not found. I tried it as root as well

su -
nvidia-installer-dkms -n

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Question so it didn’t load a desktop on the nouveau open source driver when it installed?

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no it didn’t load the desktop after the initial install… I got the black screen with moving cursor top left.

Do you think I should press n on the above conflict message ? or should we try option 2 on the nvidia link you shared at the top?

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Lets try something else first.

yay -S nvidia-340xx nvidia-340xx-utils

Edit: Sorry let me change that …edited!

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getting 3 options

  1. nvidia-340xx
  2. nvidia-340xx-dkms
  3. nvidia-340xx-lts-dkms

which one to install?

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Try #1 since it didn’t build on the dkms last time.

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getting the following message

nvidia-340xx-utils and nvidia-utils are in conflict. Remove nvidia-utils? [y/n]

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So currently the drivers are in the 470.xx version for most cards but you have an older generation of card. Right now the 495.xx version of drivers are in testing and they have dropped support for GT 710 and lower cards to legacy. There are a number of changes and it’s causing issues. Trying to figure it out too.

Did you try again y to remove utils?

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understood. Nvidia is a real pain to deal with especially legacy cards.

when I press y, I get an error saying

removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-utils=470.63.01’ required by nvidia-dkms

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What happens if you just try yay -S nvidia-340xx

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get

  1. nvidia-340xx
  2. nvidia-340xx-dkms
  3. nvidia-340xx-lts-dkms
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#1 again

Edit: It’s asking you which package you want installed.

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it says package conflicts found:

"installing nvidia-340xx-utils will remove: nvidia-utils, nvidia-utils (nvidia-libgl)

  1. nvidia-340xx
  2. nvidia-340xx-utils

packages to clean build?
None, 1,2,3, 1-3, ^4.

edited: