MSI Raider hybrid laptop becomes unusable with 570 nvidia drivers

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I don’t use Nvida so what follows is purely anecdotal.

If you have Plymouth enabled, this recent addition to Known Issues and Solutions might go some way toward working around your issue when using modesetting.

I say “might” – I’m unable to test it; but if it leads to even minor success, it might be worth trying.

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Relevance: Testing and Stable branches.

Please see the Stable Update 2025-03-24 announcement, under Known Issues and Solutions; specifically, the item System may hang during splash screen when Nvidia 570 drivers are used:

A lot of users with older Nvidia cards report system hanging on Plymouth splash screen after installing Nvidia 570 drivers. In the past we had issues with plymouth in general combined with Nvidia drivers. Therefore we didn’t update plymouth in our stable and testing branch.

See the linked item for a workaround.

Regards.