Booting to a text console, not GUI --- Nvidia GeForce GTX650

[anon89812132]

If you properly have installed the video-nvidia-470xx drivers and the linux modules, then look into setting Early KMS

Nvidia kernel modules not loading at boot

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 …