On 10.01.2026 20:56, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 12:43:24PM -0500, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention is: I'm using this card with three
monitors (one portrait mode with one landscape on each side) and I
use nvidia-settings to create a large virtual monitor within nvidia
control. I wonder if this will continue to work? (I've used e.g.
xrandr on other systems so can likely go back to that if needed).
If it worked on 580 drivers I don't see why it shouldn't. AFAIK nvidia
from pacman is just a version downloaded from nvidia.com, but
precompiled by Arch, while AUR -dkms version is using the same
nvidia.com version, but adds it to the DKMS, so it'll compile on your
own machine every time. Other than that there's no difference in
functionality (at least no major difference), except that you better not
forget to upgrade AUR packages too.
Another is that I haven't done a system update in a little while (not
too long but ...). I wonder if I should do the change to the driver
before doing the system update or vice versa.
I'd upgrade my system first and then reinstall the driver. Your system
will recompile the driver on kernel upgrade anyway. And with upgrading
the system first you'll probably be more safe from dealing with possible
conflicts
