Reviving My Nvidia 1060 on Arch Linux

Reviving My Nvidia 1060 on Arch Linux

I recently ran into a bit of a headache with my old Arch Linux machine. It’s powered by an Nvidia 1060 card that has served me well for years, but Arch Linux recently dropped support for it in their latest releases.

The first I knew of it was when I restarted my machine and was greeted by a depressingly low-resolution screen.

After some online research, I found that I was not alone. The migration path was to install the AUR package nvidia-580xx-utils.

I tried installing it using paru, but I hit another roadblock. The build process was massive, churning away for ages and then repeatedly failing to build ceph. It looked like some dependencies or build environment issues were tripping it up.

In the end, I found a workaround: installing ceph-bin first. Once ceph-bin was in place, paru used the binary instead of attempting to build ceph from source, which was causing the installation to fail. After that, the driver package installed perfectly.

One restart later, and I’m back in glorious 4K, though I’ve now forgotten what I wanted the machine for in the first place.