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In regard to reinstalling drivers - look into pacman hooks. You want one for the kernel to trigger driver reinstallation.
I'll do some reading up on that. I haven't heard of that before.
I need to install the driver from an open source project that I cloned from GitHub. Does that have any impact on if I can do what you are recommending?
Here are the instructions I follow
From what I understand you're running the script posted here, right?
ArchWiki link on pacman hooks;
Manpage link for hook format.
What you need is a file - let's call it
stick-of-joy.hook
- in/etc/pacman.d/hooks
:Writing this up on the go, so might have missed a syntax error or something. Make sure the script is executable -
chmod +x /path/to/script
.You can test it by reinstalling the
linux
package -pacman -S linux
.