Although I have an AMD APU, I am getting the following warning at boot up:
modprobe: WARNING: Module nvidia-uvm not found in directory /lib/modules/5.18.0-
I think the message is longer than that, but it was truncated somehow.
I looked at dmesg, and there is nothing related to nvidia.
However, I did find some installed packages related to nvidia that I think were installed as a dependency of something else (probably steam and mpv).
$ pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.9+r3+g582b2d3-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia-utils 515.43.04-2
NVIDIA drivers utilities
$ pacman -Qi egl-wayland
Name : egl-wayland
Version : 2:1.1.9+r3+g582b2d3-1
Description : EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland
Licenses : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : libnvidia-egl-wayland.so=1-64
Depends On : wayland eglexternalplatform
Optional Deps : None
Required By : nvidia-utils
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 81.15 KiB
Packager : Artix Build Bot <[email protected]>
Build Date : Thu 25 Nov 2021 02:51:13 AM CET
Install Date : Fri 18 Mar 2022 02:29:49 AM CET
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
$ pacman -Qi libvdpau
Name : libvdpau
Version : 1.5-1
Description : Nvidia VDPAU library
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libxext
Optional Deps : None
Required By : ffmpeg ffmpeg4.4 mpv
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 288.03 KiB
Packager : Artix Build Bot <[email protected]>
Build Date : Sun 13 Mar 2022 02:23:34 AM CET
Install Date : Wed 16 Mar 2022 06:15:37 PM CET
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
$ pacman -Qi nvidia-utils
Name : nvidia-utils
Version : 515.43.04-2
Description : NVIDIA drivers utilities
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : vulkan-driver opengl-driver nvidia-libgl
Depends On : xorg-server libglvnd egl-wayland
Optional Deps : nvidia-settings: configuration tool
xorg-server-devel: nvidia-xconfig [installed]
opencl-nvidia: OpenCL support
Required By : libglvnd steam
Optional For : ffmpeg ffmpeg4.4 vulkan-icd-loader
Conflicts With : nvidia-libgl
Replaces : nvidia-libgl
Installed Size : 452.06 MiB
Packager : Artix Build Bot <[email protected]>
Build Date : Sun 29 May 2022 09:39:04 PM CEST
Install Date : Mon 30 May 2022 10:56:29 PM CEST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
There's no reason you should need any of those installed if you are not using a nvidia GPU.
Well, I guess steams dependencies are not setup right then. Thanks btw
Thanks, I'll try that.
Steam shouldn't depend on anything nvidia-specific. What might have happened is that steam required some type of graphics driver support for something and you somehow ended up installing a nvidia-specific driver instead of something appropriate for amd like mesa or radv.
From the Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Removing_packages
pacman -Rdd package_name
Don't use pacman -Rdd unless you know, and are sure of, what you are doing. pacman -Rns is prefered by me.
and in that case you might want to reinstall steam to be careful and select the graphics support that reflects you hardware.