On 1/8/26 2:01 PM, Russ wrote:
I know. Stuff is just rolling down hill. It just semi-bricked the
computer until I went and worked on it. Given that I am not always
available to do that when I travel, it was just the wrong tool for the
job for that use case.
Whoa....
Your card is fine and still supported by the arch nvidia-legacy
package. The only thing that changes is you have to install that package
to continue using the proprietary driver.
I'm still running the 390xx driver on a laptop with the quadro 3000M
card. Arch/AUR has all the drivers for the 390xx cards, the 470 cards
and now the 580xx cards.
Download the AUR package from
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-580xx-utils and then "makepkg
-s" in the directory with the PKGBUILD. Install the resulting dkms
module, the driver will compile the proprietary driver, you then simply
reboot.
Down the line with kernel updates, the issue becomes maintaining the
package when kernel updates break the current build. Have faith, if we
have been able to keep the 390 driver patched for years, there is plenty
of life left in the 580 driver.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
