Hi, so ever since i tried manjaro I have always wanted to use the gnome version. However, whenever i try to install specifically the gnome version and reboot, it just lands on a black screen and just shows “Starting arch Version…”. I always have to press alt + f1 and alt + f2 to get into it. Experienced the same issue on endeavour os Gnome. Any idea why this is happening?. (I have an nvidia card but I choose to use the open source drivers)
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Please take a look at the thread below. Please update your post with your hardware information.
Do what now? What version? Arch is not Manjaro; Manjaro is not Arch. What did you install?
Sorry it’s been a long time since I’ve tried to install manjaro gnome. It just came to my mind now and that’s all I remember of it.
Can this be fixed in a future update?
Well I am not the person who could fix it. Maybe @philm could say more?
As I see it affects mostly systems which boots very fast and where the gpu switches slow to graphical mode. Can’t confirm that, since i have had never that problem, but i guess it affects most systems with amd gpus, so it is not general problem. No idea where to report that. Is it GDM or the driver or is it the hardware?
At least there is a workaround for letting GDM wait more time.
@Zingy Could you post your system information?
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Well I’m not actually using Manjaro Gnome rn but here is my system info. Maybe it helps
System:
Kernel: 5.12.10-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=e0d45db4-4476-4e78-8f84-8b73a1f723b9 rw quiet loglevel=3
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Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec1xxx v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 87B2 v: 31.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.20
date: 11/04/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.7 Wh (91.6%) condition: 48.8/48.8 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.1 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 439
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0
model: Logitech G304 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1
microcode: 8600106 cache: L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 71894
Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1397
10: 1397 11: 1397 12: 1397
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f95 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 30c9:0013 class-ID: 0e02
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:10fa class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A
alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 05:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.10-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel modules: r8168 port: e000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2
chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 18.64 GiB (3.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 18.57 GiB (19.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 79.3 MiB (31.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 34.0 C device: nouveau temp: N/A
Info:
Processes: 286 Uptime: 11h 35m wakeups: 13 Memory: 7.2 GiB
used: 2.95 GiB (40.9%) Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1124 pacman: 1120 lib: 257 flatpak: 4 Shell: Zsh
v: 5.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.03
And again AMD GPU
I don’t run into this issue with kde plasma on manjaro or endeavor. Very weird. Seems that sddm fixed the issue
This behaviour happens due to the fact that your hardware has dual GPUs and GDM sometimes starts before kernel DRM has the graphic drivers ready.
On Manjaro Gnome, I’d recommend doing Early KMS as explained in the Arch Wiki.
You would need to do this just for one of the GPUs, tipically for the integrated one.
For example, if your integrated GPU is the AMD, you need to add amdgpu
to the modules line in the file /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=(amdgpu)
Then, you need to regenerate your initramfs with the mkinitcpio
script:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
Be aware that this setting should persist across updates, unless there is an update to the mkinitcpio
package and you overwrite your configuration with the .pacnew
file coming along the update.
Again, this is just my suggestion. Hope that helps!
I had the same issue of endeavour os gnome (with gnome 40) as well. I will try to install it again soon and I will try this method and I’ll let you know what happens. Thanks!
Also just remembered something. When I install opensuse tumbleweed gnome, I do not face this issue. Seems distro specific.
Nope, it is version specific, always. Different Distros could use different versions and even use different patches.
Oh ok, seems that whatever opensuse does works