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pacman -S nvidia-dkmsHollywood, here I come!
Partial updates are not supported on Arch. You need to use
-Syu.I think you're misunderstanding what a partial upgrade is.
A partial upgrade is where you update the database without then upgrading every package (calling
pacman -Sywith theuswitch).pacman -S, therefore, is not a partial upgrade, as the database is not updated with theyswitch.See System maintenance#Partial upgrades are unsupported for more info.
I thought dkms was recommended only for alternative kernels, and that nvidia or nvidia-open is what’s recommended generally.
Recommended, yes, but I've had issues with the pre-compiled modules before, so I switched to
nvidia-dkmsto make sure the binaries are always freshly baked.
Yeah, obviously, who wouldn’t know that