Hi all, first let me say I’m a huge newb to linux; I switched from windows about 4 months ago.
I want to donate a 3 year old Nvidia card to a friend who is less fortunate. But I needed to test the card to make sure it still worked, because I thought I remembered that it was dead. But I could not be sure, so I must test the card. So I used Manjaro’s driver installer that appears at the top of “System Settings”. Then I removed my AMD card and installed the Nvidia card that was going to be donated.
But something has gone wrong. I can boot into grub, but if I try to finish loading up Manjaro, I get stuck on a black screen that says only “/dev/sda2: clean, 835589/30507008 flies, 25728996/122018696 blocks”. This message will flicker a few times. Then it stays stuck there. So I reinstalled the AMD card, and got the same effect. Now I can’t even use my daily driver OS.
Please tell me if I have the repair process correct: I need to identify which driver it’s attempting to use, uninstall that driver, and install the correct driver for the old AMD card. Then, I need to verify that it’s actually using the correct driver. Once I have verified that, I only need to reboot. And then Manjaro to start normally. Do I have the process correct?
Thank you