Manjaro Graphic Driver Update

Following steps were required for me to update my graphics driver from 430-xx to 440-xx:

sudo pacman -R linux56-glinsi-nvidia-430xx\

    linux419-nvidia-430xx\

    lib32-nvidia-430xx-utils

sudo pacman -S nvidia-440-xx-utils

The removal of the kernelmodules for all installed kernels. Luckily I only have two. The removal of the 32 bit libraries which are required by steam. Then I update nvidia-440-xx-utils with pacman. Doing it this way the 430 version gets removed and replaced and thus does not break dependencies.

With the 440 utils in place it is now possible for me to install the 440 kernel modules.

git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/linux56-extramodules/nvidia-440xx.git

cd nvidia-440xx

sed -i -e "s|-MANJARO|-GLINSI|" PKGBUILD

[adjust the PKGBUILD to require the right kernel]

makepkg -s

sudo pacman -U linux56-glinsi-nvidia-440xx-440.82-17-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

sudo pacman -S lib32-nvidia-440xx-utils

After all this is done, mhwd still detects 430 drivers. These I remove by hand using

sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-430xx

Now no old drivers are recognized, but neither are the new. But they are in place as can be determined by using nvidia-smi.

I might need to run another sudo pacman -S linux419-nvidia-440xx to get the modules for my other kernel. But this is something to explore another time.