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I am cooked, chat. (Fuck Nvidia btw) (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Edit: "Updating to the legacy 580xx drivers doesn't show me a desktop anymore", just in case someone else can stumble upon this by searching something similar.

Thanks to @deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de and @Ooops@feddit.org I did try fixing it out of curiosity. I had forgotten to install linux-headers. Hopefully someone who actually has the same problem as me, and needs to fix it, can use the tips given in the comments. On my end, I just had to install linux-headers and one reboot later it worked.

Always check if you have all needed packages and don't just "remember" that you had them installed.

Mr. Incredible meme format where his face goes from happy to more and more concerned at each section. The text for each section is as follows: Section 1; Arch has the nvidia-open drivers now, dropping pascal support. Section 2; You still use a 10xx series nvidia card. Section 3; You forgot to install the legacy drivers and have already updated. Section 4; Your GUI doesn't show up anymore. Section 5; Installing the legacy drivers through TTY doesn't help.
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Did you not see the news item you get before it allows you to start the update?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I was working on a little Intel NUC on the side that had memory issues. And during that I just sudo pacman -Syu on my main machine without thinking.

    I did also read the announcement before upgrading which makes it even better IMO.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, I feel your pain. Hope that you had btrfs rollbacks available to you.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

    I use ext4, but the fix was just installing linux-headers. I simply was of the impression that I had already installed those. Most likely I had installed them on one of my laptops and simply just had that vivid memory still in my head. Once I installed them the problem solved itself after a reboot.

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