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Thank you very much! The driver is working.

Latest -24 version works great for me on 5.14.6.arch1-1. /dev/drm is present and SDDM works too. My hats off to the devs that are keeping my old laptop going with the latest and greatest!

@alou-S You need to manually create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf. The filename 20-nvidia.conf is totally optional here, I personally named it because:

• It is easier to know exactly what sort of contents would be expected within that file, at a glance; it is pertaining to nvidia of course, and,

• The prefixing of the numbers indicates that it has a higher priority/preference when Xorg starts.

Have a look at Arch Linux wiki, troubleshooting nvidia page. It gives you an idea of why I chose to use that filename, and to have that file there, even though that linked issue does not specifically apply to me.

@tuxsavvy Nvm, I figured it out. Just had to add this to my xorg.conf

Section "Files"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Also realized that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf doesn't exist for me, coping it over from /usr/share/nvidia-340xx doesn't seem to fix the issue so had to add it to xorg.conf

@alou-S There's not enough information with regards to your issue. I have found a workaround to ensure that glxinfo -B does show my card. If this does not work, then I do not know how to solve your issue.

In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf,

# (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
# (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
# (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
# (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
# (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
# https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1702290#p1702290
# https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53090#comment164782
Section "Files"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Nvidia Card"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
        Option "NoLogo" "1"
        BoardName "GeForce <censored>"
EndSection

Perhaps try referring to the links in lines prepended with # character.

@tuxsavvy Hmm other than the /dev/dri listing issue and sddm issue. The other problem is that OpenGL doesn't seem to work anymore. glxinfo gives some sort of (NV-GLX) error.

@alou-S You might want to check the merge comment by package maintainer. It looks like the required /dev/dri listing may not be implemented due to security risks. Presently the only viable way is to compile a custom kernel with that CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY set.

As for sddm, the long story short is that it probably could be avoided if lightdm for instance was used instead (look for the comment by thelinuxfan).

The latest version 340.108-23 seem to compile the kernel module right. But the old issue of sddm not able to start has come back.Card not visible in /dev/dri. Problem occurs on kernel 5.14.2 but not on 5.13.13 with the latest nvidia-340xx 340.108-23. Does anybody else have a similar issue?

The latest upgrade nvidia-340xx (340.108-22 -> 340.108-23) works fine with Linux 5.14.2-arch1-2

Thank you.

@vicpt thx for the patch. I change the b2sum too in my pkgbuild and everything works fine. KUDOS to you