Checking with pacman -Qs video-linux and pacman -Qs video I can’t find anything.
The mhwd -li only listed the nvidia-430xx I mentioned before, nothing else.
no, video-linux is a config of mhwd. It is “meta-package” for the free-drivers. It is not in pacman listed.
So only nivida is there. That is bad… i hoped you could use the free driver after removing nvidia.
What says:
pacman -Ss xf86 | grep -i install
xf86-video-nouveau maybe there?
It returns:
extra/libxxf86dga 1.1.5-1.1 [installed]
extra/libxxf86vm 1.1.4-4 [installed]
extra/xf86-input-elographics 1.4.2-2 [installed]
extra/xf86-input-evdev 2.10.6-2 (xorg-drivers) [installed]
extra/xf86-input-libinput 0.30.0-1 (xorg-drivers) [installed]
extra/xf86-input-void 1.4.1-5 (xorg-drivers) [installed]
multilib/lib33-libxxf86vm 1.1.4-2 [installed]
Not sure if useful, but since I’m not at work anymore I have a second working Windows10 PC with internet next to me and I do have USB sticks and a external HDD if need be.
Great… we need a manjaro install medium. boot from it and then chroot into you local drive:
manjaro-chroot -a
then it can be fixed.
Like my old liveboot usb? I originally used it to install Manjaro and kept it just in case, but as mentioned before I can’t get in it for some reason.
When using nonfree drivers and the setting I was told in the first comment the CPU softlock is fixed but it’ll hangs on Reached Target Graphical Interface.
I get into grub. Can I use the same trick to boot into bash from the live boot’s grub then use this command?
And what about free drivers? Doesn’t it work also?
exactly the liveboot usb 
The free drivers are the one that gives me that mention of the CPU soft lockup bug. Googling I found using nonfree could help, and the soft lockup bug mention went away indeed, but it hangs on that sentence after which my fan starts blowing very loudly.
I remember vaguely I had to use the command bogdancovaciu mentioned at times of installation. But I’m unsure about other things I did to get in. I used it to install Manjaro two years ago so there must be a way, if only I figured out how I did it back then.
I always kept that liveboot usb with my laptop because I figured I know too little to not screw up sooner or later 
. I had only used Linux for 1 or 2 years and just one day installed Manjaro in a “now I have to learn” mindset overwriting Windows. Untill yesterday it went great, I learned a lot but still know far from everything. Each time I’ve got a issue I learn more 
. But that’s also why I might not know some basic things if I hadn’t need for them before despite using it for a few years now .
I have found your thread 
ok well… you were able to change TTY ?
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Maybe I’m saying something that’s obviously not possible or a dumb idea.
But is it maybe possible to use my Windows10 desktop to download packages (or something else), put them on a USB stick, boot into grub from my pc and then mount that usb and install the packages from local files?
I have an old Linux installation on there but I had other completely unrelated issues causing instability I didn’t had the time to look into yet. I use it for gaming so I rarely boot it into Linux anyways. But if need be I can give it a try.
Oh great!
Let me check. You mean to ask now if I can change TTY on the already installed broken OS?
Maybe, i am not 100% sure. But when the TLP error occurs, change the tty with
CTRL + ALT + F1
That is because we don’t want pictures of text, so what you’re doing is the right thing. 
Please read this:
And in the future, when providing code/output, please copy-paste it in-between 3 backticks at the beginning and end of the code/text ``` so that the output looks like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
instead of like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
(as that makes our life much easier so you get helped more quickly and efficiently)
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Ctrl+alt+F1 seems the broken version. But ctrl+alt+F2 does indeed bring me to a TTY2
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Thank you!
As far as pictures go. It’s mainly because I’m on a phone typing stuff while sitting in front of my laptop, hence I figured pictures might have been more easy and less prone to typos. If that’s the preference I’ll keep typing it.
Thanks. I wasn’t sure how to easily make those code blocks on my phone. 3 backticks it is! I’ll make sure next posts will have it!
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Do you have a internet connection now?
ping -c 2 manjaro.org
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PING manjaro.org (176.9.38.148) 56(84) bytes of data
64 bytes from mail.manjaro.org (176.9.38.148):icmp_seq=1 TTL=52 time=29.2ms
64 bytes from mail.manjaro.org (176.9.38.148):icmp_seq=2 TTL=52 time=36.1ms
--- manjaro.org ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/mdev = 29.237/33.648/36.060/3.411 ms
I think that means I do.
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Now you can fix the problem.
remove all packages related to nvidia.
lib32-nvidia-450xx-utils
lib32-opencl-nvidia-450xx
nvidia-450xx-utils
linux-414-nvidia-450xx
linux-419-nvidia-450xx
linux-54-nvidia-450xx
let the 430xx stay
Then remove and reinstall the driver with mhwd:
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-430xx
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-430xx
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I can’t remove them because the dependency with cuda breaks.
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-450xx-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils>=450.51.06' required by cuda
The 430xx aren’t installed at this moment, since they’ld conflict with their 450xx counterparts.
Assuming 450xx will work when installed properly the newer driver is fine too. Would it perhaps work if I use
mhwd --install pci video-nvidia-450xx
And if that goes without error should I remove the 430xx one? Since I installed the packages of 450xx trough octopi but nothing else?
You can do it like this, but i would rather suggest to remove it first.
remove
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-450xx
install
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-450xx
Right now trying to remove it just returns
Error: config 'video-nvidia-450xx' is not installed!
I assume because the idiot that I am I only installed the packages trough octopi. Hence, I figured I might be able to install it properly using the install command. At this point I don’t dare to try until I’m told I should. Don’t want to ■■■■ up more .
So, is in this case only the install ok?