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Please don't flag this package out-of-date unless a new version has been released by NVIDIA.

The DKMS package guidelines are explicit that linux-headers should not be a dependency of any DKMS package.

As a concrete example of why including that as a hard dependency is a bad idea, what happens when linux is not an installed kernel?

PACKAGE NEEDS LONG TERM MAINTAINER

I have adopted the 390xx packages to keep them secure. I do not run any 390xx hardware so will not notice any breakages and cannot test any changes.

Until such time as someone else steps up to maintain these packages - ideally someone who actually has 390xx hardware - I have to rely on you to tell me what changes are needed.

Don't expect a response if you post only "this doesn't work", and do not email me to complain about the package not working!

Use this forum thread for discussion: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1946926

A binary package is also available in my kernel-lts unofficial user repository.

Please don't flag this package out-of-date unless a new version has been released by NVIDIA.

First at all thanks for the driver, i wish to know how to mentain it or make such a package as i'm still use a GT119. And i can tell this clone it's work better than the driver from my past windows 10Xcleaner than. Seems like you know what to do with a machine.
>thank you<

for the upcoming 5.17 kernel: https://gitlab.com/herecura/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms/-/blob/herecura/kernel-5.17.patch by Joan Bruguera

Need to install linux-headers, otherwise it will fail when installing the package.

Error message:

(2/3) Install DKMS modules ==> ERROR: Missing mnt kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing lost+found kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing sys kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing var kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing lib kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing run kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing usr kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing etc kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing srv kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing root kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing opt kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing dev kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing boot kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing lib64 kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing version kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing sbin kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing tmp kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing home kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing proc kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147. ==> ERROR: Missing bin kernel headers for module nvidia/390.147.

The DKMS package guidelines are explicit that linux-headers should not be a dependency of any DKMS package.

As a concrete example of why including that as a hard dependency is a bad idea, what happens when linux is not an installed kernel?

linux-headers should be a hard dependency of this because installation fails without them. Dkms is a dependency of the package, but the linux-headers are only an optional dependency of dkms, so it is possible that this package is installed without the linux-headers being present, leading to a failure.

@duht: See https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidia-390xx-utils/#comment-836318 and check if it can help you as well.

@all: I am using an ancient desktop PC equipped with a GeForce GTX 560 card, and since kernel 5.16-rc4, there are no problems with suspend here.

Anyone having a complete broken xorg after last update? i'm getting a blinking cursor and only TTY access. The driver shows loaded lspci...

ignore me ... i fixed it... had to force mkinitcpio -P

Thank you @jonathon.
I thought this bug is only related to this poorly supported nvidia-390xx driver in conjunction with newest xorg-server, like previous ABI bug (there is no problem with nouveau), but it looks like a general xserver issue. Thanks again.