GUI is not loading after installing nvidia proprietary drivers

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Hello there. I’ve been using Manjaro XFCE for a week now (used to be a Windows and Mint user, I don’t know much about Linux overall). My problem is that whenever I install video-nvidia-390xx driver, the GUI is not loading after reboot, just a black screen, which I can access tty. To access the GUI I always have to remove the nvidia driver via tty and use video-linux. Also I can access the GRUB menu.

Anyway here is my inxi output.

  Kernel: 5.4.112-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 
  root=UUID=6641d2db-39a4-440b-987e-a6d2c6ebe651 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=978063bf-f30e-4ef9-b4c6-26ef1c44fe6a 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 7 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81DE v: Lenovo ideapad 330-15IKB 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad 330-15IKB 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO 
  v: 8TCN43WW date: 05/18/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 26.0/30.6 Wh (84.9%) 
  volts: 8.5 min: 7.6 model: CPT-COS L16C2PB2 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> 
  status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.69 GiB used: 1.91 GiB (24.9%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: E0 cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 28808 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 801 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c 
  flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp 
  hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce 
  md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid 
  pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand 
  rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme 
  vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: Lenovo driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d10 class-ID: 0302 
  Device-3: IMC Networks EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-8:4 
  chip-ID: 13d3:5a02 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nouveau 
  alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 394mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.4.112-1-MANJARO 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: 0.3.25 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:3 
  chip-ID: 0cf3:e500 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 82.75 GiB (8.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: LCM2 scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GUE0N rev: T.02 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 906.86 GiB (98.31%) 
  used: 82.75 GiB (9.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: 6641d2db-39a4-440b-987e-a6d2c6ebe651 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL 
  uuid: 16AA-7643 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: 978063bf-f30e-4ef9-b4c6-26ef1c44fe6a 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: A4Tech USB Mouse type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 09da:c10a class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Qualcomm Atheros type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0cf3:e500 
  class-ID: e001 
  Device-3: 1-8:4 info: IMC Networks EasyCamera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 13d3:5a02 
  class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 43.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 209 Uptime: 11m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1265 lib: 325 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.04

Also my mhwd -l output, if it helps.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI


> 0000:01:00.0 (0302:10de:1d10) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2020.11.30               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2020.11.30               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2020.11.30               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2020.11.30               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:5917) Display controller Intel Corporation:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2020.11.30               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2020.11.30               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI
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It seems that my problem is solved with using Optimus Manager. I still set it to Intel integrated graphics card at startup because I worry about stucking in the terminal again with all the possible Optimus Manager configuration may make my case worse somehow.

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You need to install video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime because you have a laptop,don’t install video-nvidia,then in optimus manager you can freely switch what graphics card you want.

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Thanks for the reply, might be a newbie question but what’s the difference with driver video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee?

I installed 390-xx-bumblebee, disabled Bumblebeed.service and now everything seems working.

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Bumblebee is a old method of doing dual graphics,its deprecated unless you have a old nvidia card,thats why you need to install video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime because thats the current and improve method because its official by nvidia.

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Like @XRaTiX already told you: Bumblebee is old technology and your:

is still supported by the 460 series driver so you’d indeed be better off with the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver.

Why the GUI is not loading when you install the nVidia only drivers is because your

has no actual electric wiring from the nVidia card to the internal laptop screen and the Intel card is used as a dumb framebuffer to transfer data to the internal screen but that means you need the hybrid driver if you want to use the internal screen.

A few years ago laptops used to have dual wiring and you could choose between Intel - nVidia and Hybrid mode in the UEFI / BIOS, but not any more…

:sob:

P.S. Alternatively, you might be able to use the nVidia-only drivers with an external screen. (last time I looked that still worked on a Lenovo) :man_shrugging:

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Thank you for your reply, it was really insightful. I guess I’ve got to learn more about the hardware I’m using.
:sweat_smile:

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