Re: Nvidia 550.90.07 problems
Reply #1 –
Not those exactly but I have experienced issues at times with kernel and nvidia-dkms combo's.
Here's what I do:
I have
In /etc/pacman.conf
On system upgrades you get told if any of the ignored packages have updates.
I update my kernel infrequently. Often only when there a full set of nvidia updates which are a major version update.
When I decide to update I clone my entire rootfs to another partition before I do so, so that I can easily revert if there are oddities. It should also be enough to just make sure you have copies of all the current nvidia & kernel packages before you do the update.
To update the ignored packages you have to explicately pass them to pacman:
sudo pacman -Syu lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia linux linux-headers
Also make sure you only use the nvidia packages from Artix. At one time it didn't seem to matter if you used the Arch one's or the the Artix ones. Now, for me at least, the Arch ones do not work well, or at all, with the Artix kernel even with nvidia-dkms.
I just prefer to update these packages at the time of my choosing and holding back the kernel & nvidia doesn't effect other packages like holding back many packages could due to libraries etc