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NVIDIA driver from repository is not working

- Artix 5.15.77-1-lts & 6.0.7-hardened1-1-hardened
- Desktop Enviroment Plasma/KDE (but I tested all the following even with LXQt)
- Full disk encryption https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/InstallationWithFullDiskEncryption
- Using either LTS or Hardened kernel by selecting in GRUB https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4167.0.html
- Everything works fine up to this point

- But when I try installing the latest nvidia-drivers from whatever repository (world, galaxy, lib32, universe, extra, community, multilib); sddm display-manager won’t start after boot.
- Direct start of desktop enviroment by „XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland“ according to procedure from https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,2880.0.html is not working (and I am unable to copy cli command output for some reason – I tried both „tee“ and „>“)
- I even tried to blacklist nouveau drivers and reinstall nvidia https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouveau

- Only way to use DE without problem (initially) is to directly install nvidia driver from .run file downloaded from nvidia web.
- But this causes problems when I then try to install Steam with pacman...

Could you please advise me how can I install the latest and usable nvidia-drivers by pacman?

My gaming PC setup:
MB: GA-H310N-2.0 rev1
CPU: i5 9400F
GPU: RTX 2070

Re: NVIDIA driver from repository is not working

Reply #1 –
530 probably don't work with Wayland. However I'm having issues with 525 also atm.

Try X11.

I get this feeling that whoever made Artix completely forgot Wayland existed.