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kyentei

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Registered: 2014-07-13

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[SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

Hi,

I'm using an XPS 15 9530 with an nvidia card that reports as AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile].
I've installed nvidia-open, nvidia-utils and nvidia-settings. The upgrade to version 610 seems to have broken the driver. I use the nvidia card in a PRIME setup.

For example:

~ ❯ nvidia-smi
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
NVML library version: 610.43

Downgrading the three packages from cache seems to resolve the issue:

pacman -U nvidia-open-595.71.05-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst nvidia-utils-595.71.05-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst nvidia-settings-595.71.05-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

I have also attempted to switch nvidia-open for nvidia-open-dkms, but that doesn't resolve the issue.

I am using an intel integrated graphics card as main card, and only use the nvidia card for gaming. Does anyone know what may cause this issue and how I might resolve it? Thanks in advance! :-)

Last edited by kyentei (2026-06-01 21:32:28)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

Did you reboot after the update?
Does the journal/dmesg suggest your loading the 610xx module?

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kyentei

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

I did indeed reboot after the update. Dmesg shows the following:

root :: ~ ❯ dmesg | grep nvidia
[    1.429425] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    1.429433] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    1.495462] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 239
[    4.173861] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  595.71.05  Release Build  (root@)  
[    4.184678] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[    6.419237] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[    6.419250] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [drm] No compatible format found
[    6.419252] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   21.987135] NVRM: API mismatch: the client 'nvidia-persiste' (pid 1952)
[   27.038841] NVRM: API mismatch: the client 'nvidia-smi' (pid 2647)
[   31.828929] NVRM: API mismatch: the client 'nvidia-smi' (pid 3915)
[   60.159904] NVRM: API mismatch: the client 'nvidia-settings' (pid 4966)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

You'll likely have the nvidia module in the initramfs and that wasn't updated (either at all or you forgot to mount the /boot partition and wrote it into the mountpoint)

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kyentei

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

I'm not sure if this is related, but `nvidia-open` does not seem to have updated the kernel modules:

root :: ~ ❯ pacman -Ql nvidia-open
nvidia-open /usr/
nvidia-open /usr/lib/
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.zst
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-modeset.ko.zst
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-peermem.ko.zst
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-uvm.ko.zst
nvidia-open /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia.ko.zst
nvidia-open /usr/share/
nvidia-open /usr/share/licenses/
nvidia-open /usr/share/licenses/nvidia-open/
nvidia-open /usr/share/licenses/nvidia-open/LICENSE

root :: ~ ❯ cd /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/

root :: ../modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules ❯ ls -l
total 9600
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   80200 May 28 11:22 nvidia-drm.ko.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8203095 May 28 11:22 nvidia.ko.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  776873 May 28 11:22 nvidia-modeset.ko.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1827 May 28 11:22 nvidia-peermem.ko.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  761404 May 28 11:22 nvidia-uvm.ko.zst

Considering I just updated the package, I would have expected the modules to have a timestamp of today.

kyentei

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

You'll likely have the nvidia module in the initramfs and that wasn't updated (either at all or you forgot to mount the /boot partition and wrote it into the mountpoint)

Yep, that was it! Thank you :-) I will update my dracut pacman hook to also trigger on nvidia-open package updates!

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

[Edit: "for the records"]

stat /usr/lib/modules/7.0.10-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.zst

ls -l will show the modification time which would match  the 610 packaging.

Last edited by seth (2026-06-01 21:33:50)

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kyentei

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating to nvidia 610 breaks driver when using PRIME

You're absolutely right. Thank you.