Black screen when playing Garry's Mod

Do so, and see if that helps.

it worked for 20 minutes and than black screen

OK, ONLY other thing I can possibly think of, id trying another network driver, if the one you’re using wasn’t installed from the AUR?

Edit:

Doesn’t look that way:

So let’s blacklist that one first:

sudo sh -c 'echo blacklist r8169 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf'

Followed by installing the one from the AUR:

pamac build r8168-dkms

And rebooting. If that doesn’t work, follow @maycne.sonahoz’ advice about the journal.

The system journal might give some clue.

What is AUR and how is my network driver is linked to crashing?

Launch game from terminal and share output after it crashes.

AUR is the Arch User Repositor, and I’ve come across many problems caused by that specific driver, this might be one, might not.

This driver is available in Manjaro directly, in Manjaro Settings Manager → Hardware. No need to install it from external source. It does the blacklisting and all automatically, click install, done.

I am skeptical about changing the network driver for the game problem but that may not hurt. You can always uninstall it from Manjaro Settings Manager.

//EDIT: however I see it is using the radeon video driver, maybe amdgpu would be better. I think simply installing amdgpu-experimental package would be the simplest way to try, it will add everything to force its use.

sudo pacman -S amdgpu-experimental

Same. It isn’t guaranteed to help, but it shouldn’t do any harm either.

second command didn`t work for me, it sayed "Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=thea-the-awakening-bin from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=python-migen-git from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=stereokit-git from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=xcaddy-bin from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=earthly-bin from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Failed to query https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=jitsi-meet-nightly from AUR: Socket I/O timed out
Error :object not found : r8168-dkmspamac
Error :object not found : build

Also I have blacklisted my network driver by first command and I don’t know how to unblacklist it, help pls
Edit : blacklisting my network driver didn’t help, it still crashes
Edit 2 : I don’t know, why, but now the last Sound before crash is playing in a loop (like 1 second)

Monitor your system resources, and your CPU/GPU temperature, you might simply crash because your hardware is boiling hot. Also if you have any kind of overclock enabled, disable it as it may be also a common reason for crashes.

Hardware is in it’s normal temperatures, never even touched overclocking

Done everything like in your tutorial
Ps : sorry for photo, I have accidentally blacklisted my internet driver, while trying to fix my crashing problem
Ps 2 : using Kate because I forgot about internet problem and closed terminal

Did you see my suggestion about using AMDGPU driver instead of old RADEON driver?

To remove the blacklisting, reverse the operation, delete the line added in the file or remove the file if it only contains this line.

kate /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

inspect the file, if it only contains the line blacklist r8169 then you can delete the file with sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf command, if it contains other lines, then just delete the blacklist r8169 line and save the file.

To force using the AMDGPU driver for your video card, install the following package:

sudo pacman -S amdgpu-experimental

If it works then try, if it boots to black screen, then you open a TTY with CTRL+ALT+F3 and you remove the package with

sudo pacman -R amdgpu-experimental

Tried to use 4.14 kernel, now grub gives me error : unknown filesystem
I guess it’s my curse of Linux stuff not working properly.

  • 4.14 kernel is now EOL, you will need to stay on 5.*
  • Take things more slowly, and resolve what hinders you one step at a time.
  • That last error is ill omen: you might have a faulty drive… But let’s proceed through the previous steps first.

I can’t help if you ignore everything I write and do whatever goes through your mind.

Apologies for not being here, to undo the blacklisting, remove the file you just created and reboot. This command ought to take care of everything:

sudo sh -c 'rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf && reboot'

IF there’s only the one line in the blacklist.conf file.

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