Fresh install of manjaro-kde-20.1-rc5, after install video-nvidia-450xx and reboot, black screen

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As the title says, I have done a fresh install of manjaro-kde-20.1-rc5 and after install video-nvidia-450xx and reboot, black screen with Acer logo instead of login screen.

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Welcome,

That is quite normal to happen if you just installed the video-nvidia-450xx driver, without doing the rest of required configurations for that. You should have had installed the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime since is a hybrid GPU laptop.
Might take a look at this in the archived forum:

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Can you get into tty after booting by press ctrl + alt + [f2, f3, ... , f6] ?

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I reported on forum because I already installed several versions of Manjaro on this laptop, always without any problem. I mean, fresh install of ISO, followed by updates (if any) and then using the graphical tool to install the nVidia driver always worked. This time, doesn’t.

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Yes, tried some tips from other posts without success. Maybe next ISO or some update will make things works nice as in my previous installations.

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Then you can try mhwd -li To check the drivers installed
and mhwd -r pci *driver-name* to uninstall the driver
and mhwd -i pci *driver-name* to reinstall it.

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Actually I once tried Jonathon’s solution to deal with external monitor problem but get black screen, didn’t know why, maybe I made some mistakes :frowning:

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Switch to kernel 5.7 or 5.4

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Alternatively, you can reinstall - update the kernel to 5.7 (I’ve had issues with 5.6 when auto installing proprietary drivers - probably because the kernel version that shipped with the ISO is unsupported, at least the - quite recent - ISO I had laying about on my system) then select auto install proprietary drivers - this way it will most probably install the hybrid 450x version on it’s own with no further issues.

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Just done a fresh install of endeavouros-2020.07.15-x86_64.iso and it worked without any problem, like all previous versions of Manjaro.

It’s something in this RC5 of Manjaro 20.1…

Tried to attach a screenshot but “Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”. :expressionless:

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Nvidia GTX970M on MSI Laptop with latest kernel and driver no problem with optimus manager. Follow the guide and delete nvidia config in /etc/x11