TLDR: What driver do I install that works and won’t brick?
I had no GUI and there was freezing up on boot (before even login screen). After installing linux513 via chroot and removing all drivers with pacman and mhwd I’ve finally gotten back into a GUI state. This all happened because I foolishly used the auto driver installer for nvidia (in terminal), which proceeded to brick my system upon reboot.
Now I’m in a driverless state where my GPU is not being utilised outside of basic graphics (so I at least have GUI to post here now). I’m afraid to install any more drivers less I spend another 5 hours trying to fix my PC. Any recommendations? Who else is running this card or similar and has working drivers? I’d to do some GPU accelerated activities. Thanks a lot. This is like my 3rd account because the forum keeps deleting me if I don’t post for a while
Specs:
Kernel: 5.13.0-1-MANJARO
Packages: 1745 (pacman)[testing], 1 (snap)
Shell: zsh 5.8
Resolution: 2560x1440 @ 120Hz
DE: GNOME 3.38.4
WM: Mutter (Wayland)
WM Theme: Matcha-dark-sea
Theme: Matcha-sea [GTK2/3/4]
Icons: Papirus-Dark-Maia [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans 11 [GTK2/3/4]
Terminal: gnome-terminal-server
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 3.7GHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 4153MiB / 32020MiB (12%)
Disk (/): 162GB / 233GB (69%)
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Edit: I guess it might be worth mentioning but gnome wayland seems to be the only DE that loads. Anything else crashes and sends me right back to the login screen.