Installed 450 nvidia driver and it’s broken

[LinuxLoverForever]

@Fabby
I had dependency issues too and when I forcefully resolved them that’s when I got issues. I ended up removing the nvidia driver and temporarily installing the open source one which got me back to the GUI then I used the kde gui tool to switch back to 440xx. See my post here…oh darn I don’t have high enough rank yet to put links in posts I’ll quote post it.

@LinuxLoverForever

@Yochanan that had me cracking up for 5 mins. (and probably the rest of the night) @cnaak I’m so sorry after I posted I went back to work. I only saw your thread because I was going to the update anouncement thread to give an update on my status and saw that this thread linked to it. I guess I should’ve written the mhwd commands and such. I know you solved it and sorry this wasn’t sooner but for future readers.

1. Crt+Atl+F3 to get to ttyl
2. login to your user account at the prompt
3. run mhwd -i pci video-linux
4. run mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-450x
5. reboot
6. it should boot into DE which for me is kde then I went to system settings GUI tool
7. went to hardware configuration and installed video-nvidia-440xx and removed video-linux via right-clicking on the drivers.
   @cnaak That’s interesting that you found a kernel solution makes me wonder if 450xx would’ve worked if I was running the 5.4 LTS kernel because right now I’m on the 4.19 kernel. (10 minutes later…) OH CRAP NOT AGAIN!!!

btw I can totally relate to that image. Like when you find a stackoverflow question with your problem but either there’s no answer or there is but it doesn’t work. More recently I’ve been having the scenario where you find a github issue on your problem but the issue is still open.