System freeze after installation of nvidia's proprietary driver

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Good afternoon

Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what language to communicate with you, so I’ll choose the most convenient one for me.

I have a problem with my Acer Aspire 7739G laptop, more precisely, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M video card and its drivers. When I try to install the drivers, after rebooting the laptop freezes during startup and does not respond. The same situation was on Windows, and now on Linux. I really like Linux, but the problem with the drivers and the video card is the same.

I have Manjaro Xfce installed, but after installing the driver, the laptop freezes at the boot stage. I tried using it: reinstalling the drivers, testing different distributions (including Linux Mint), but the problem remains. The driver that is only available is version 390.

I also looked for a solution on YouTube, Google and on the forums, but unfortunately nothing helped. It seems that there is only a small hope on the forum, so I’m asking you for help. Is there a way to solve this problem?

And one more thing - I’m looking for a very old version of the driver for NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M (version 390). Maybe you know where I can find it? I have a laptop with two graphics cards (Intel i5 + NVIDIA) and I want to use both together.

I would be very grateful for your help

Moderator edit: Replaced Ukrainian text with English one and moved back to support category.

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Hello @Daisy and welcome :wink:

Sound pretty much like a hardware issue, if both OS’s have trouble here.

sudo mhwd --install pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee

That would be the installation of the configuration. bumblebee is there to offload gpu workload since prime is only available since 470xx. Of course there is the GUI: manjaro-settings-manager where you can do the same thing. Do not install video-nvidia-390xx. This will break on an old hybrid GPU laptop because the screen is hardwired to the Intel GPU.

Take look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bumblebee#Usage to see how you would use it.

I would also recommend using an older kernel with this old driver. Something like linux54 or linux510 or linux515.

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Additionally;

GeForce GT 520M certainly is quite old, but the 390xx drivers do still exist in the Manjaro repositories.

The following links to the Manjaro Wiki page on configuring graphics. I hope this is useful.

Regards.

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Thanks for the help, sorry it took so long to reply

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