TTY assumes the system is booted already.
If it cannot boot move on to runlevel 3.
(which will have it boot without gfx … likely then being able to boot into the console prompt)
Show me how ? As I said before: I can get it to the login screen then it hangs after logging in.
So … that is finished booting, and that would be an example I would expect TTY to work.
I dont understand how it would not… but the instructions for booting into runlevel 3 are there too.
If for some reason you cant do that either … then the other option is chroot, which can be done easily with manjaro-chroot if you dont have fancy filesystems like btrfs or encryption.
Ok cool… I booted into TTY… Now what ?
I did sudo mhwd -r nvidia bumblebee but now the OS won’t boot at all…
Whatever it is you need to do.
How did you ‘install the nvidia driver’ before?
mhwd -li would show us anything mhwd knows about.
EDIT. looks like you went ahead…
That is not a valid command.
But … now you cant boot at all? Not even to runlevel 3?
No it gets stuck on the backlight intel_backlight
You might be able to try the fallback options … otherwise manual chroot might be the only reasonable way.
mhwd -li shows video-linux type pci and nothing else.
mhwd shows two display controllers. Nvidia and intel. I did mhwd -r video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee and it remoced it but now the linux wont boit at all… Just TTY with the option 3 added.
OK so you can get to runlevel 3. great.
What does mhwd offer?
mhwd -l
I tried: mhwd -i pci video-linux -f … It reinstalled video.linux… Trying now.
Update: i tried startx from tty and it says it cant connect to the x org server…
Update: normal boot shows a black screen now. Thats it.
Mhwd -l shows this: https:// ibb. co/Gt8CMnH
Bah … Manjaro is too difficult to keep working. I need an Linux OS made for programmers and developers. Graphics and software developers. I was trying to get the damn nvidia drivers installed so i coukd play skyrim. Just forget it. Now i lost all of my data. Its so frustrating.
Any other solutions ?
I beg to differ - it depends on how you treat it.
I am a developer - Manjaro Linux is rock solid - but you need to know what you are doing.
If you don’t - use Red Hat, Fedora or Ubuntu.
Yes it is - I developed a set of scripts years back - that has my back when it is necessary to reinstall.
The concept is described in [root tip] [How To] Move my home (content) to another partition
I am trying one more thing first before I switch. Manjaro was phenomenal though. If I can’t get the nvidia drivers to work on this I may need to switch to a different OS. I don’t care for Red Hat Linux after all of the change ups in their kernels in 2005.
You should use X11 instead of Wayland when you want to use Nvidia.
If you are having issues with Nvidia, switching OS will not make those issues go away.
Wayland and Nvidia is not a good match.
You have provided no information on your system - which makes it impossible to provide any meaningful comment - everything will be generic.
So provide some extra clues - please
inxi -SCGmxxxc0
Manjaro Hardware Detection will usually install the correct drivers - in your case this will do it
mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300
Also remember, using custom themes with Plasma may cause you great trouble - it is advised to stay with the default Plasma Breeze or Manjaro Breath theme.
None of that worked… I did a quick reinstall with USB stick and then I installed the nvidia bumblebee driver and it did the same thing… It does not go past the login screen. Maybe it is a kernel issue.
Are you sure you need that?
bumblebee does not work well with newer cards - and you have still not provided any useful info.
https:// ibb . co/hWgR58f
I don’t open links I don’t know.
Please copy the text and paste it into your comment like this example
```
$ inxi -SCGmxxx
System:
Host: tiger Kernel: 6.6.7-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Memory:
System RAM: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.62 GiB
used: 4.7 GiB (7.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
required.
CPU:
Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX s bits: 64
type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 3 rev: 2 cache: L1: 768 KiB L2: 6 MiB
L3: 64 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1917 high: 2392 min/max: 1800/7015 boost: enabled cores:
1: 1800 2: 1800 3: 1898 4: 1800 5: 1800 6: 1800 7: 1800 8: 2366 9: 1800
10: 1800 11: 1916 12: 1800 13: 2374 14: 1899 15: 1800 16: 1901 17: 1800
18: 1879 19: 1800 20: 2392 21: 1800 22: 1800 23: 1800 24: 2388
bogomips: 196494
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX] vendor: Tul / PowerColor
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 63:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 model: Samsung LS49AG95 serial: HNTR900132 res: 3840x1080
dpi: 82 size: 1193x336mm (46.97x13.23") diag: 1239mm (48.8") modes:
max: 5120x1440 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.3.1-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi
navi31 LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.7-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:744c
display-ID: :1.0
```
it won’t let me. The manjaro forum detects the text as a link and will not allow me to post it…
Host: manjaro Kernel: 6.5.5-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.5 GiB used: 1.68 GiB (10.8%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
required.
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-4300M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 824 high: 897 min/max: 800/3300 cores: 1: 800 2: 897
3: 800 4: 800 bogomips: 20762
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,
DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce GT 730M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Kepler pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1290 class-ID: 0300 temp: 52.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus,nouveau gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.65x9.37")
s-diag: 485mm (19.11")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1482 res: 1600x900 hz: 60
dpi: 132 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14") modes: 1600x900
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus drv: nvidia nouveau platforms:
device: 0 drv: crocus device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: swrast
surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11: drv: crocus inactive: gbm,wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW
GT2) device-ID: 8086:0416
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.264 layers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:0416
The 390xx driver support your 730M card as can be seen from Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 390.157 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA
This driver can be specifically installed using mhwd
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-390xx
According to Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 470.223.02 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA the 470 driver should support it as well
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx
This will likely have an impact on power consumption … and no promises
Source of Nvidia Unix driver archive Unix Drivers | NVIDIA