After a recent update, however my system started hanging during the loading, the login screen never loaded up. I have managed to solve this problem by uninstalling all nvidia drivers, including the dkms and x11-driver-video-nvidia, and using nouveau instead. But I want to use the nvidia official driver that they provide through their site.
In the past, all I had to do was to execute their .run file when the display server is not running (in my case I do it by going into failsafe mode), and it did the rest of the job. However I am running into some problems while installing the nvidia driver through this way.
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ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb, or nouveau is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release.
I tried to uninstall nouveau to see if it works, but it doesn't. Is there anyway I can manage to install this driver instead of the one that gets installed through the repository?