Can't get past splash screen on live usb

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New computer, Nvidia rtx 4090. I can’t get past the Manjaro splash screen with either proprietary or free drivers. With proprietary, I get stuck on the splash screen indefinitely and can’t get a tty. With the free drivers, eventually the splash screen seems to crash and I can then get into a tty. From there I tried to run startx which predictably failed with (EE) no screens found. But that also let me get some Xorg logs which might be useful?
<I’m apparently not allowed to embed images, I don’t know how else to get logs off the system right now>
Notably it seems to me like it’s an unsupported card (“devices detected but none match those in the config file”).

I can’t figure out how to proceed because without being able to get a desktop I can’t run the installer and I can’t do any of the stuff I’d normally try IE updating drivers. Any help appreciated, even if it just gets a desktop temporarily.

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Did you check the hash of the iso you downloaded?

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Hi and welcome to the forum :+1:

To help others help you better you need to provide more details about the steps you did before you hit your problem…
Start with:

  1. Which Operating system do you use normally,
  2. Which Manjaro image did you download,
    (Give the URL) [HowTo] Post screenshots and links
  3. Where did you store that Manjaro image,
    (USB-Stick / CD/DVD / Harddisk)
  4. Did you check the image using it’s checksum / hash files?
    Check a Downloaded ISO Image For Errors - Manjaro
  5. How do you start that Manjaro image.
    (Do you boot your computer with it or do you use a Virtual Machine)
  6. Do you have Secure Boot enabled in your UEFI-BIOS.
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Thanks for the responses. I’ll just respond here since Jim only asked about the checksum.

  1. I basically put Manjaro on everything, I haven’t used other distros in a while.
  2. Manjaro KDE Plasma Lite, I can’t post a url because I’m a new user (I swear I used to have an account on this email, not sure what happened…)
  3. Stored on a usb-stick.
  4. I didn’t check the checksum, but I did just now. Looks ok.
  5. I am booting the USB.
  6. Secure boot is disabled.
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it looks like manjaro didnt add this card to their mhwd tool yet…
you can try also booting the usb with this parameter:
ibt=off
heres a link where you put it during booting the usb…

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Yes, that worked! The open source drivers still seemed to crash the same way, but with this setting the proprietary drivers eventually got to a desktop.

Thanks so much

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you will also have to add this parameter in your installation, otherwise you will end up again with a black screen…
you can add it via chroot, or again during booting, and then make it permanent by adding it to grub conf

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