I guess most people know by now, but the 660 got bumped out of the current driver and into legacy blob sometimes in late November, Early December. I don't remember... Brain no workie.
I neglected to do anything about it because I'm so accustomed to terrible/absent diagnostic output that I tend to ignore problems instead of fix them.
But, low and behold, dmesg actually gave me useful information for the first time in 2 decades... It's almost like an adult was involved in a Linux thing. After I picked my jaw up off the floor and popped a few nitro pills, I proceeded...
So, I yay this boi into my machine, and presto, my video is back!
yay nvidia-4
I pick 2 and 3, 1 is added as a dependency along with some egl-wayland thing...
3 aur/nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.94-2 (+39 16.12)
NVIDIA drivers - module sources
2 aur/opencl-nvidia-470xx 470.94-2 (+39 16.12)
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
1 aur/nvidia-470xx-utils 470.94-2 (+39 16.12)
But, yeah, sadface... It's AUR.
Y U NO UNIVERSE? <-- Yes, I'm calling this a repo problem. This should be in Universe.
Big need. Much useful.
You obviously saw the use in doing it for the 390xx...
yay 390
3 universe/opencl-nvidia-390xx 390.144-3 (14.0 MiB 60.7 MiB)
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
2 universe/nvidia-390xx-utils 390.144-3 (19.8 MiB 106.6 MiB)
NVIDIA drivers utilities
1 universe/nvidia-390xx-dkms 390.144-3 (9.5 MiB 27.1 MiB)
NVIDIA drivers - module sources
but, when I
yay 470
3 aur/nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.94-2 (+41 16.13)
NVIDIA drivers - module sources
2 aur/opencl-nvidia-470xx 470.94-2 (+41 16.13)
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
1 aur/nvidia-470xx-utils 470.94-2 (+41 16.13)
NVIDIA drivers utilities
So, yeah, making this post for the bumps...
Big do.
I expect it's probably just a matter of luck what hardware the maintainers have, if nobody can test if it works perhaps it's better to get the version from the AUR ? And isn't a DKMS driver built regardless ?
Plus it isn't open source, ideally you should be writing your own FOSS driver instead now in line with GNU principles :D
I took over maintaining the 390xx drivers a while ago, but have no nvidia hardware myself.
The 470xx drivers have now been added to the universe repo now, untested and without guarantees. As always, make sure to first have a backup before updating.
artist
I think we are over-spoiling our users...
Awesome, thanks for spoiling me. I'm kinda brain damaged... I wouldn't make it without a little help now and then. Artix has been a lifesaver.