NVIDIA: Black screen after an update

In case of a NVIDIA driver update and after reboot, you only see a black screen, follow this guide to how downgrade the NVIDIA driver.

1. Open a Terminal
2. Go to /var/cache/pacman/pkg by typing the following command:

PS> Set-Location /var/cache/pacman/pkg

3. Now, lookup the correct package to downgrade, there are 3 to view:

• nvidia-dkms
• nvidia-utils
• nvidia-settings

You can search the version to downgrade by going on the following websites:

• GitLab website for the NVIDIA Utils package

4. Now that you located the version, type the following command:

# pacman -U nvidia-dkms.123-4 nvidia-utils.123-4 nvidia-settings.123-4

5. Reboot the system when finished.

Congratulation you downgraded the NVIDIA Drivers!