Skip to content

Remove Nvidia proprietary driver option (nvidia-dkms no longer in repos)#4343

Merged
Torxed merged 2 commits intoarchlinux:masterfrom
dylanmtaylor:remove-nvidia-proprietary
Mar 31, 2026
Merged

Remove Nvidia proprietary driver option (nvidia-dkms no longer in repos)#4343
Torxed merged 2 commits intoarchlinux:masterfrom
dylanmtaylor:remove-nvidia-proprietary

Conversation

@dylanmtaylor
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

Fixes #4284

The nvidia-dkms package has been removed from the Arch repos as of the 590 driver release. The NvidiaProprietary driver option is now broken since it tries to install a package that no longer exists.

This removes the option entirely since it was functionally identical to NvidiaOpenKernel (both install dkms + libva-nvidia-driver), just pointing at a package that no longer exists. Saved JSON configs that reference the old option will get a clear error directing users to use the open kernel module instead.

@dylanmtaylor dylanmtaylor requested a review from Torxed as a code owner March 31, 2026 02:09
@dylanmtaylor dylanmtaylor force-pushed the remove-nvidia-proprietary branch from d93990f to 2dda627 Compare March 31, 2026 02:13
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

@Torxed Torxed left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Nice catch!

@dylanmtaylor
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

@Torxed I don't have a merge button here, can you push this in too, instead of just approving? Thanks.

@Torxed
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Torxed commented Mar 31, 2026

Will do once I'm at a computer and can double check why that was removed etc, and I'll try to push a pkgrel=2 to the repo so that it comes on the ISO if all checks out. Just wanna make sure it's not a packaging accident on this end hehe

@dylanmtaylor
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

@Torxed
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Torxed commented Mar 31, 2026

@Torxed https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules

Thank you, nailed it! just what I was thinking of looking up later :D

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

@h8d13 h8d13 left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Just mean to ping this earlier today

@dylanmtaylor dylanmtaylor requested a review from h8d13 March 31, 2026 20:29
@Torxed
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Torxed commented Mar 31, 2026

image

Appears to be working beautifully with everything I've thrown at it.

@Torxed Torxed merged commit 179d9c7 into archlinux:master Mar 31, 2026
9 checks passed
@Torxed
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Torxed commented Mar 31, 2026

Published version 4.1, hoping that it will make it to the ISO :) Appreciate the work!

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

nvidia-dkms no longer exist still served by ArchInstall

3 participants