Hello, After various issues, I have come to the conclusion that something is pretty wrong with my video driver, based on my GPU’s driver being listed as “N/A”. I would provide a better conclusion, but I am not very knowledgeable in these matters and the command outputs probably speak better than me…

So it turns out the issue was because of Intel’s Indirect Branch Tracking feature. In case anybody with the same issue stumbles across my threat out of all the others for some reason, I’m going to make this a slightly more comprehensive solution reply: The first solution is what brahma recommended,…

first uninstall this: sudo mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime reboot then provide output from: pacman -Qs nvidia pacman -Qs optimus find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"

Sorry for taking long to respond! So trying the first command it told me that it would break dependencies for nvidia-dkms (which I had downloaded following guides for my original problem of getting games to work). I removed it and replaced it with the non-dkms package then uninstalled. Don’t know h…

so remove also these, to get rid off nvidia: sudo pacman -R ffnvcodec-headers lib32-opencl-nvidia opencl-nvidia then reboot and in bios check if you have there some settings related to your gpu, that it is disabled or something like that

Alright I uninstalled those packages, and the only GPU related setting I could easily find in my BIOS was for hybrid support, so that’s disabled now.

so install them again: sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 reboot and check with inxi -G if the nvidia driver is detected

Now it’s getting stuck at /dev/nvme0n1p9: clean, #/# files, #/# blocks (# being actual numbers of course) when booting.

probably because of the bios setting, so enable it again and see if you can boot normally

Now boot is freezing at a seemingly random point but usually shortly after [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

can you enter into tty: ctrl+alt+f2 - or f1-f6 and check with: mhwd -li if it installed the prime hybrid drivers?

I was not able to enter into any tty but I was able to boot to runlevel 3. It appears to have installed the drivers. > Installed PCI configs: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER T…