> of your problems go away, and you can also pin your X.org version and manually update > Partial upgrades are explicitly unsupported by the distro. The probl

> of your problems go away, and you can also pin your X.org version and manually update > Partial upgrades are explicitly unsupported by the distro. The problem is obvious. Sometimes you might have to pin a package version because the newer version does not work with your hardware driver, as you said, but then again Arch calls this unsupported. I had the same problem in the past, not with Nvidia but with DisplayLink. For that reason I always leave a USB stick with a bootable Arch ISO in my Thinkpad, so that I can arch-chroot and repair the system. It happens rarely, but it happens to me and others as well.