Well, looking through this journalctl file, it’s a lot of stuff, but one thing that does pop out is the line here that says something along the lines of “Systemd-modules-load: Failed to find module ‘nvidia’” and a few others like it (can’t copy/paste, in the TTY now)
Another line of interest: "Failed to star Light Display manager. These are at least the ones showing up in red that are obvious
So far I’ve been trying to new ones I downloaded as a result of this process, I didn’t bother going back to the older ones, since those ones didn’t work before, but I can try them again
Since your system is now running (albeit without a GUI), you can use mhwd while the system is running (in tty) to switch to the open-source driver for Nvidia cards. There are several threads about this here. The open-source driver is called “nouveau” and is integrated into the kernel. So, nothing needs to be installed; you just need to remove the (non-open-source) Nvidia drivers.
I can’t give you the exact syntax for mhwd off the top of my head. I don’t use the program often enough.
You can also try (as mentioned several times already) booting a different kernel from GRUB. But that’s not a permanent solution.
OK, so I looked up the syntax and installed the free driver like you said according to this
But still no change…
And to be clear, because I don’t know if I said this yet, I tried the other kernels, and they all don’t work, and 6.1 still gives the kernel error, so we know that one is totally fried. So it seems like the two I installed during this process are the only two that matter
What would be the next logical thing to check in the chain now that theres a new driver?
I’ll check journalctl again, see if the nvidia thing is still throwing an error or not
Edit: Yep, looks like systemd-modules-load[316]: failed to find module ‘nvidia’ is still happening, along with ‘nvidia-drm’ and ‘nvidia-uvm’ (or possibly vvm, my vision isn’t what it used to be)
As @anon33601770 has told you on multiple occassions, saying “It didn’t work” or “It still gives a kernel error” without sharing the error(s) with us, provides No information at all.
WE ARE NOT Mind Readers. We also cannot see what you are seeing. Please provide output from the CLI.
Also telling us you followed a set of instructions is uninformative. Give us step by step what you did, along with any CLI output.
Additionally, have you considdered, you may have a hardware issue?
I mean, theres not much to say, the other older kernels either give the “failure to load kernel modules” error from the beginning, or do the blank cursor thing that the newer kernels do.
I used this command
user $ sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300
And there was no errors, it said it was successful. It’s tougher to show my exact outputs now that I am working in the TTY rather than the USB live environment where I could just copy into a web browser like before
I’m trying my best here, I’m just kinda stressed out, and with some of these issues, theres no error, it is just a blinking cursor, theres no error to report other than the computer continues to not reach the login screen. I wish there was more to report beyond that.
Is there a way for me to copy/paste from a TTY? Before it was easier because I was working from a USB Live environment and could open a web browser there to copy the outputs from the terminal. I am trying to be helpful, I just don’t know what to be reporting in some of these cases
I’ll try what you said next and report what happens
Edit: OK, theres a clear error to report this time. When running
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
I got the error "failed to prepare transaction (could not satisdy dependencies)
;; removing Linux510-nvidia breaks dependency ‘linux510-nvidia’ required for linux-lts-nvidia-meta
OK, so heres something I’m kinda confused about, why am I removing the proprietary driver?
I understand there is consternation about closed source software and all, but shouldn’t that one be the one that works more effectively for the sake of testing since it’s the native software?
I’m just curious and trying to understand what I am doing here
The thing is that the proprietary Nvidia drivers are always a nightmare in GNU/Linux, and that because they are proprietary and closed-source, you don’t know what they’re doing, you cannot fix them, and you’re not even allowed to fix them if you could.
there was no errors, the outputs looked pretty normal, nothing concerning
Then I rebooted, and we’re still at the blinking cursor.
So I went back to the TTY and ran
mhwd -li
In order to see if it was gone, and for some reason it wasn’t, so I ran
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
And that removed it completely.
I restarted again, and we have a desktop again, which like, I almost fell out of my chair seeing that again…but it’s…weird…like one of my monitors is pure white, and the windows are super blinky…but I definitely call that progress!
So like, do we reinstall the old driver now, or is there stuff I need to change to make this driver work because it’s different?
I meant like, because I’m switching from the Propriatary, will I need to change things to make some programs, etc work properly now that it’s different, or am I good?
Oh and I fixed the second monitor issue, for some reason it just forgot my desktop wallpaper, hehe.
If this is fixed though, oh my god. thank you all SO SO much, like, I wish I could send all of you baked goods or something, this has had me in the throws of a not insignificant mental breakdown for the past week, so this is a huge burden off my shoulders.
It’s kind of the curse of how good Manjaro is, I’ve been running it for years, but still feel like a newbie whenever anything breaks, because I so seldom have serious issues. But also it still keeps bouncing back, which is why I’ve stuck with it.
Needless to say, if anything else goes wrong, I’ll report back
