Hello! I’m brand new to Manjaro, just installed today, and I somehow already broke my system trying to download a Nvidia driver.
The issue I’m having has happened to me before on another OS, and I managed to fix it there but here I don’t know how to fix it.
At the moment, Manjaro won’t boot, and I still have the USB stick I used to install manjaro with me, and I was originally thinking of installing Manjaro again but I have some data I already transported I don’t want to lose.
no need to loose that data - it’s presumably still present at the location you transported it from
if not:
transfer it back to there
re the Nvidia driver issue:
… tell us what you did …
I got ahead of myself and went to the Manjaro hardware settings since I already have used linux before and knew how Nvidia drivers worked, best to explain, and I switched from the Hybrid intel/Nvidia Prime driver, to the 470x driver I think it was called, and restarted my laptop for it to boot for a few then it gets stuck on the Manjaro logo.
mkay - you used the Manjaro tools
but still no one knows anything about your system
can you not just revert the to the state that worked?
I forgot to state out my laptop specs, I apologize, they are:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
Intel(R) UHD Graphics as my GPUs,
A Intel core i7-10750H CPU, and 16 Gigs of Ram.
I managed to find my data again after somehow losing it, I reinstalled Manjaro with proprietary drivers, I think I’ll need some help installing Nvidia Drivers this time, just so I don’t do the same mistake twice.
For that the inxi command is more helpful
for instance:
inxi -Fazy
In that case I don’t know why you would even want to (re)install anything -
because the Nvidia drivers ARE the proprietary drivers
so:
you already have got what you want. 
no?
If you select the proprietary driver option when installing Manjaro, the Nvidia proprietary diver is installed.
I’m just used to downloading/redownloading drivers to make sure I do have my Nvidia drivers are set, I am brand new to Manjaro and everything, and I don’t really have a way to test if my Nvidia card is being used.
And yes true, it could be that the drivers are already installed and are set to work as normally, I just sorta stress on to make sure my Nvidia card IS actually being used, I apologize for any inconvenience, and thanks for trying to help out in my little issue I happened to get myself in. 
that inxi command in the previous post … would tell you
and if not you - someone else could explain it to you
or even more thorough:
inxi -zv8
Doing that shows both of the Intel and Nvidia GPU, the intel being “Device 1” and Device 2 as the Nvidia card, is that how it’s set to be?
sounds right, but:
no one really knows (from what you said) -
you are kind of encouraged to actually share the output
so that people who do know, know what the situation is 
System:
Kernel: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.9-x86_64
root=UUID=f591f6ee-b956-47f5-bfb4-21e20dc112de rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 46.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell
tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 46.2 Distro: Manjaro
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus M15 GU502LV_GU502LV
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GU502LV v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: GU502LV.312
date: 04/07/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.1 Wh (98.4%) condition: 58.0/76.0 Wh (76.4%)
volts: 15.8 min: 15.8 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: not charging cycles: 285
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.4 GiB used: 4.32 GiB (28.0%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB speed:
spec: 3200 MT/s actual: 2933 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Micron
part-no: 8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1 serial: N/A
Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 type: no module installed
Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB speed:
spec: 3200 MT/s actual: 2933 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
part-no: M471A1K43DB1-CWE serial: <filter>
Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 type: no module installed
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-10750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xFC
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3331 high: 3601 min/max: 800/5000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 3600 2: 3600 3: 3224
4: 3600 5: 800 6: 3601 7: 3600 8: 3600 9: 3600 10: 3600 11: 3548 12: 3600
bogomips: 62431
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs
ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx
monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 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: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW
loop
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc4
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 550.107.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+
status: current (as of 2024-06; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f15 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:7
chip-ID: 046d:082d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :1
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x31eb built: 2017 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.651 y: 0.329 green: x: 0.204
y: 0.714 blue: x: 0.145 y: 0.055 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 3840x2160
EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 0
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris
surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland,device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.6-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
device-ID: 8086:9bc4 memory: 7.52 GiB unified: yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Razer USA Barracuda X driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1:2
chip-ID: 1532:054e class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-4: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:7
chip-ID: 046d:082d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.9.12-3-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno2 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 29.5 GiB (3.1%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
SDBPNPZ-1T00-1002 size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 21106000 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 953.57 GiB size: 937.53 GiB (98.32%) used: 29.5 GiB (3.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
uuid: f591f6ee-b956-47f5-bfb4-21e20dc112de
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 33A7-830B
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Razer USA Barracuda X type: HID,audio
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 1532:054e class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-3:7 info: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: video,audio
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 046d:082d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-4:3 info: Pixart Imaging OpticalMouse type: mouse,keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2533 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-10:4 info: ASUSTek N-KEY Device type: keyboard
driver: asus,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b05:1866 class-ID: 0301
Device-5: 1-14:5 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A pch: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2700
Repos:
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1300 libs: 458 tools: gnome-software,pamac
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://southfront.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://quantum-mirror.hu/mirrors/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 361
1: cpu: 300% command: ps pid: 27090 mem: 3.62 MiB (0.0%)
2: cpu: 35.7% command: steamwebhelper pid: 21656 mem: 528.8 MiB (3.3%)
3: cpu: 19.9% command: steam pid: 20978 mem: 305.8 MiB (1.9%)
4: cpu: 11.0% command: steamwebhelper pid: 21633 mem: 154.5 MiB (0.9%)
5: cpu: 10.7% command: brave pid: 18391 mem: 401.7 MiB (2.5%)
Memory top: 5 of 361
1: mem: 528.8 MiB (3.3%) command: steamwebhelper pid: 21656 cpu: 35.7%
2: mem: 401.7 MiB (2.5%) command: brave pid: 18391 cpu: 10.7%
3: mem: 397.2 MiB (2.5%) command: ./steamwebhelper pid: 21580 cpu: 1.4%
4: mem: 320.3 MiB (2.0%) command: brave pid: 18435 cpu: 7.2%
5: mem: 313.2 MiB (1.9%) command: brave pid: 19934 cpu: 3.4%
Info:
Processes: 361 Power: uptime: 1h 0m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
avail: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.13 GiB services: gsd-power,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.35
Like this? and if so, this is what I got from using the inxi command. And apologies again for not being very clear on stuff, I am new to this forum system and all.
Hello @oroange and welcome to the community 
The way you describe your problem, sounds to me as the Plymouth bug:
Remove the word splash & quiet from the Grub command line options via editing
/etc/default/grub
Update Grub config file with
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Thank you.
This is as far as my knowledge about Nvidia goes.
People who actually use it will be able to say more.
@Kobold
I think the system works just fine as it is - he just wants to install something that is already working as it should
because he doesn’t know (better).
Possible true, i also have no experience around dual GPU solutions. But it still can’t hurt to remove Plymouth… because the fancy boot logo hide the point where the OS won’t boot.
You have a dual-gpu system. Optimus. intel iGPU plus nvidia dGPU.
You need to use the PRIME driver to access the nvidia.
As you have seen - force installing nvidia just wont work.
(I also dont know why you would go installing a legacy version)
Undo what you did.
And this command will force reinstall the desirable driver
sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
He already reinstalled - it should all be honky dory as it is.
I was also confused why he installed 470 legacy driver… we already have driver 550… but since i have no clue about dual GPU, i blindy guess there is may a reason behind this idea. (good to know, that legacy isn’t required for a working dual GPU solution)
Ah seems so.
Anyhoo. If @oroange is still confused here is a link
If they want a test they can use something like
glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'
(should return intel)
prime-run glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'
(should return nvidia)
I just blindly went to install a Nvidia driver, so I could have my Nvidia GPU as the main one, only to accidentally ruin my boot, I fixed it with reinstalling Manjaro, I’ll do my research next time …