Do I need to remove the current nvidia driver or your command will take care of that?

As for the kernel LTS, is there a way to make that permanent?

Thanks to both of your suggestions

Hi all
I have HP Elitebook 8730w workstation laptop with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M with 1 GB and 240GB SSD drive. The laptop is well-looked after.

After successfully installed Antergos with Xfce and nivida (340.xx) using 1GB /boot (ext2), 120GB (ext4) / and 6GB /swap.

The problem started when using the browser, any browsers, (chromium, firefox, google-chrome etc) the system froze. Cannot move the mouse. Only happened with browsers and no other apps. I even reinstalled using brtfs instead of ext4 with no luck. Also, swapped out with a different working hard drive and the result was the same.

What could be the issue?

Acer 8930G, Core 2 duo, 4GB DDR2, Sandisk 240GB SSD, Nvidia 9700 GeForce 512MB DDR2
512MB boot, 75GB root, 6GB swap and 152GB home
Just installed Antergos 64bit xfce and it booted up just fine.
Screen went blank as soon as I attempted to logon. When I clicked on my username it just go blank. Cannot login at all.

Arch linux wiki said for Geforce 6000 or 7000 use 304xx
Not 340xx

Nevermind… reformatted and installed a fresh copy of Antergos.
No nvidia issues etc.

Noticed something else… no matter what USB devices I insert (external hard drive, usb stick etc) it doesn’t show up or auto-mount. All glitches started few weeks ago.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96M [GeForce 9700M GT] (rev a1)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G96M [GeForce 9700M GT] [10de:064a] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G96M [GeForce 9700M GT]
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:064a
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 driver: nvidia
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: GeForce 9700M GT/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.76 Direct Rendering: Yes

Like I said before my nvidia works fine with Ubuntu, Mint and Windows. I only now with Arch Linux I’m getting this upper graphic distortions.

Any suggestions to what might be the problem with mine?

Sudo pacman -S nvidia-340xx
which also automatically installed nvidia-340xx-utils
Reboot and then,
Sudo pacman -S nvidia-340xx-libgl
Press Y to remove mesa conflict
nvidia-xconfig
Generate new nvidia file
Reboot