I have had problems with my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 card earlier. See here and here.
Today, I installed a large update and now the computer boots to a text console — TTY1.
I can do startx and Gnome starts as expected. There. are no errors reported on the console, just some warnings about keymaps.
How do I get into the GUI as the computer starts?
If you properly have installed the video-nvidia-470xx drivers and the linux modules, then look into setting Early KMS
but that should be
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
inside the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf if you want to enable early kms, then you have to run
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo update-grub
But then, if you want for later to test wayland (not worth tho), then you add to /etc/default/grub on the cmd line to be like that
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
then run
sudo update-grub
but, where this comes from
is something i never encountered …
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@anon89812132 Sorry for the delayed reply. The situation seems to be murkier. And now it is not letting me edit the question. I will ask a fresh question.