In the past few days I tried installing arch with no luck. I don't think the 460 drivers support optimus using the 5.10 kernel.
Only a few distros worked out of the box with optimus graphics. things were working great then bam! 460 driver came in with new kernel and laptop stopped working. I was running manjaro on my laptop for a year or so then switched to fedora about 8 weeks ago. For instance Manjaro, which I have used for the last year before switching to fedora, dropped many outdated nvidia drivers. I'm actually having a hard time understanding. It seems NVIDIA is dropping support for many cards and kernels and some distros are dropping outdated drivers. It seems there is a bit of an uproar in the linux community over recent changes NVIDIA made. Last edited by PowerSponge 13th January 2021 at 02:02 AM.
If you install nvidia proprietary direct from Nvidia as another example, the process isn't one of those above. Just depends what you did, what works for you, and perhaps opinion. Then reinstall an older package that's still available in the repo or download an older one $ dnf remove *nvidia* (it should show you what it wants to remove, and if it looks good, accept it). $ dnf history undo NUMBERFROMLIST ($ "dnf history undo 310") $ dnf history list (if you manually installed something through dnf) $ dnf remove PACKAGE ($ "dnf remove libuuid" or $ "dnf remove libuuid-2.36.686") $ rpm -qa -last (find all system updates) If its through dnf or gnone-software, you might be able to do the following. Suppose that depends on how you installed the driver.
Im trying to figure out how to roll back my drivers. So I would think its related to laptop & hybrid. all on 5.9 kernels and soon 5.10 which is now in testing for release through Fedora updates. I really don't know what's going on there for you. The other drivers that get pushed automatically with system updates, you will inevitably get pushed a lemon at times as that's life with that. If you remove the driver and nouveau works fine-ish then you may need to install a slightly older proprietary driver manually to use it at this time. It could be possible that there's still some left over problems even with the one released this month so far. for instance had various x server issues. Its the word hybrid that stands out to me with your problem here. I know for me there's an issue that doesn't allow me to use the other two installed kernels and I haven't finished looking into it but that is only related to nf in some weird way. I would think the 460 driver would work fine on 5.8 kernel.