Black screen after system update (no graphical interface, XOrg failed to load module ‘vmware’)

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All right, thanks for pointing that out.

Now I’d like to make the X11 properly work also in the future — I see the old vmware config (90-mhwd.conf) is still pointing to “nowhere” now, because of my renaming the file to old-vmwareconf.20250728:

cd /etc/X11 && tree
.
├── mhwd.d
│   └── old-vmwareconf.20250728
├── xinit
│   ├── xinitrc
│   ├── xinitrc.d
│   │   ├── 40-libcanberra-gtk-module.sh
│   │   ├── 50-systemd-user.sh
│   │   └── 80xapp-gtk3-module.sh
│   └── xserverrc
└── xorg.conf.d
    ├── 00-keyboard.conf
    └── 90-mhwd.conf -> /etc/X11/mhwd.d/vmware.conf

5 directories, 8 files

… and it shows also a warning:

mhwd-gpu --status
:: status
warning: could not find '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf'!

So what can I do to fix this properly?

Edit: I continued as follows:

  • I removed the broken symlink rm --interactive /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf

  • reinstalled the kernel (switched to 6.12 … then mhwd-kernel -i linux615 … then switched back to 6.15.7-1), to see if some X11 mhwd config in the process would be created, no /etc/X11/mhwd.d/vmware.conf was created

  • investigating further hardware drivers (https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Hardware_Detection_Overview) with mhwd --listinstalled --detail it shows the installed driver video-vmware 2017.03.12, but listing all available drivers (for 6.15.7-1) by mhwd --listall there are a lot, but no video-vmware — so I wonder if the installed driver video-vmware 2017.03.12 is a relict, and what driver should be the right one (and if that is the reason why the /etc/X11/mhwd.d/vmware.conf was created and that X11-log reports that it is still looking for module vmware):

    mhwd  --listinstalled --detail
   # NAME:        video-vmware
   # ATTACHED:    PCI
   # VERSION:     2017.03.12
   # INFO:        X.org vmware video driver.
   # PRIORITY:    1
   # FREEDRIVER:  true
   # DEPENDS:     -
   # CONFLICTS:   -
   # CLASSIDS:    0300 
   # VENDORIDS:   15ad 

    mhwd  --listall
> All PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     network-rt3562sta            2013.12.07                true            PCI
         network-r8168            2023.09.12                true            PCI
   network-broadcom-wl            2018.10.07               false            PCI
       network-slmodem            2013.12.07                true            PCI
           video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI
       video-rendition            2020.01.18                true            PCI
          video-voodoo            2017.03.12                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime            2025.01.13               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2023.03.23               false            PCI
  video-virtualmachine            2024.05.06                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2025.01.13               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
              video-s3            2020.01.18                true            PCI
          video-sisusb            2020.01.18                true            PCI
          video-nvidia            2025.01.13               false            PCI

  • so should the video-vmware 2017.03.12 be replaced by another proper available video-something-driver? Or is there an automatic way of reinstalling some package to clean up the “mess”?