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NVIDIA kernel module needs to be updated

Seems like every single NVIDIA-related package is on version 565.77 except for the module itself, which is still on 565.57. Trying to update the system via pacman lends me this error message:
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error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing nvidia-utils (565.77-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=565.57.01' required by nvidia
Package nvidia is correctly updated in the World-Gremlins repo. Adding the repo to pacman's config and updating works without breaking any dependency, but now nvidia-smi fails, though this is a problem for a different topic.
 

Re: NVIDIA kernel module needs to be updated

Reply #1 –
I'd recommend skipping plain nvidia package and go streight for nvidia-dkms. There's waaay less hassle when updating and you can easily change kernels. As you can see here, nvidia-dkms is given more attention:

If you don't care about freetardisms, I'd argue it is still better to skip the nvidia-open and nvidia-open-dkms in favor of the closed source drivers, just for compatibility sake.

Re: NVIDIA kernel module needs to be updated

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Shoun2137 – on
I'd recommend skipping plain nvidia package and go streight for nvidia-dkms. There's waaay less hassle when updating and you can easily change kernels. As you can see here, nvidia-dkms is given more attention:
Can confirm that I eventually decided to just say "fuck it" and install the DKMS package, and nvidia-smi works this time. I had to do the same thing back when I was using Arch at some point. I just prefer the plain package because I don't like waiting an extra minute for DKMS to install every time the kernel/driver itself gets updated. Thank you regardless, hopefully the version mismatch gets fixed by then, though this started happening two days ago.
Quote from: Shoun2137 – on
If you don't care about freetardisms, I'd argue it is still better to skip the nvidia-open and nvidia-open-dkms in favor of the closed source drivers, just for compatibility sake.
Pretty sure NVIDIA will have the drivers actually working properly with Wayland before the open-source drivers are usable, haha.

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Quote from: Trout – on
I just prefer the plain package because I don't like waiting an extra minute for DKMS to install every time the kernel/driver itself gets updated.
Yeah, this is the fault of the compression, you should probably change it to something else, I've did it like so:
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# /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
COMPRESSION="zstd"
COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-v --long --ultra -15)
MODULES_DECOMPRESS="yes"
This one packs it in like 10 secs, not over a minute on R5 1600af.

Re: NVIDIA kernel module needs to be updated

Reply #4 –
Hopping in to say that lib32-nvidia-utils also still requires nvidia-utils=565.57.01 so it just needs a bump