I had installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers because I wanted to take advantage of GPU acceleration to test an AI through Docker.
After completing my tests, I uninstalled Docker and the Nvidia drivers, and reinstalled the open drivers. That’s when the problems started.
I rebooted and the system froze here;
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, I rebooted the system and during boot, I started pressing F8 repeatedly because I thought that by doing so, I would enter the Grub screen where I could select a different kernel. Instead, to my great surprise, the system booted correctly and I reached the login screen.
Now, the only way to reach the login screen is to constantly press F8 during system boot.
mhwd -l -d
PCI Device: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:1b81)
Display controller nVidia Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
INSTALLED:
NAME: video-linux
ATTACHED: PCI
VERSION: 2024.05.06
INFO: Standard open source drivers.
PRIORITY: 2
FREEDRIVER: true
DEPENDS: -
CONFLICTS: -
CLASSIDS: 0300 0380 0302
VENDORIDS: 1002 8086 10de
Can anyone give me advice on how to permanently resolve the issue without pressing F8?
Can anyone tell me what happens when I press F8?
Thank you all for the time you want to dedicate to me.
inxi -Farz
Summary
System:
Kernel: 6.11.11-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11-x86_64
root=UUID=5a04b4a9-4044-44b2-9ac2-573de019c50f rw quiet splash
udev.log_priority=3 amd_iommu=on iommu=pt
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.8.0
wm: kwin_x11 with: plank vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: GA-990FX-GAMING v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: F2 date: 04/06/2016
CPU:
Info: model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Piledriver level: v2
built: 2012-13 process: GF 32nm family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 2 stepping: 0
microcode: 0x6000852
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 8 smt: <unsupported> cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-8x16 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 8 MiB desc: 4x2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2687 min/max: 1400/4000 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2687 2: 2687 3: 2687
4: 2687 5: 2687 6: 2687 7: 2687 8: 2687 bogomips: 64322
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
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: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP:
disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, DP-3, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300 temp: 50.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: HP 27o serial: <filter> built: 2019 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.8-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NV134 device-ID: 10de:1b81 memory: 7.79 GiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com.
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.11-1-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: 1.2.7 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: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0a1 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-2:2
chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.0
lmp-v: 6 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 937.11 GiB used: 257.98 GiB (27.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD7501AALS-00J7B0 size: 698.64 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0K05
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT256MX100SSD1
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: MU01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 78.44 GiB size: 76.65 GiB (97.72%) used: 34.51 GiB (45.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 30.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0
Repos:
Packages: 1535 pm: pacman pkgs: 1519 libs: 408 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 16
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://manjaro.mirror.garr.it/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://ct.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.58 GiB used: 3.64 GiB (23.4%)
Processes: 283 Power: uptime: 2d 15h 56m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 5 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 6.2 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37
Mod note: Added code </> formatting.