[arch-general] How to build nvidia driver?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:44:24 +0200, Manuel Reimer wrote:
>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1020399/
>
>Can someone please give me some hints about what steps I have to do to 
>downgrade the driver without touching the kernel version?
>Which packages need downgrading?

Much likely nvidia and nvidia-dkms, however perhaps other packages.

Running

  pacman -Qs nvidia | grep "384.59"

might show you what packages, resp. running

  pacman -Qs nvidia | grep "384.59"

So perhaps you need to run

downgrade nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms libxnvctrl nvidia-settings nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia
Available packages:

   1) nvidia-384.59-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   2) nvidia-384.59-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   3) nvidia-384.59-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   4) nvidia-381.22-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   5) nvidia-381.22-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   6) nvidia-381.22-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   7) nvidia-381.22-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   8) nvidia-381.22-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
   9) nvidia-381.22-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
  10) nvidia-381.22-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote)
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