Black screen with cursor after installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers

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No, just some frozen text and a movable cursor.

42

then try Ctrl + Alt F2 to F8 to open a TTY

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Yeah, I’ve been using the tty2. I used it reinstall the Nvidia drivers earlier.

44

check if internet is on

inxi -Fza
sudo pacman-mirrors -c all 
sudo pacman -Syy
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45

Yeah, my internet is working just fine.

I think I want to try just reinstalling from proprietary drivers on the live USB and see if that works.

46

so
do this
clean install nvidia before

sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300
sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
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47

For both of those, it skips it saying they’re already installed.

48

check if nvidia-settings is installed

pacman -Qs nvidia-settings

if not add :

sudo pacman -S nvidia-settings
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49

Yes, it’s already installed.

50

what have you for

sudo mhwd -li

is there any video-linux ?

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51

Yes, there is both video-linux and video-nvidia.

52

then try

sudo mhwd -r pci video-linux
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Done. It’s removed. Do I reboot?

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sudo mkinitcpio -P
cd /etc/X11/mhwd.d/

is there nvidia.conf ?

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Yes, it’s there.

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then try to reboot ,

sudo reboot
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57

Okay I rebooted. Same black screen.

58

so open TTY ( Ctrl + Alt + F2 to F8)
then

sudo journalctl -b0 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

and give link http return

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http://ix.io/4sAW

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post additionaly to stephane logs pic from:
ls /etc/modprobe.d
mhwd -l -li
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"

also run:
startx
and post output…

maybe enabling early loading of drivers could also help, but first the outputs

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