Hello,
I wanted to play the new juicy Cyberpunk 2077 and found I had to update my nvidia drivers from 450xx to 455xx.
I tried to do this in the terminal (i am using an architect install).
hardware: ryzen 5 3600, nvidia 1660 ti
I am using the 5.8 kernel, but I believe I also have 5.4 installed, though the live usb I am chrooting from seems to have 5.6…
I tried to run something like ‘sudo pacman -S nvidia-455xx’ and found I could do a system update so I did (its been a while and ive just moved, it was kinda big). probably was a little too hasty here.
after this I tried to install the new nvidia driver again and rebooted.
on reboot, I go straight to a black screen. I think it has to do with X and the kernel/driver versions. I select the partition in BIOS, it seems to ‘boot’(fans sound normal) but no output on screen. I could not even switch tty with ‘Ctrl + Alt + f2/3/4/5’
I downloaded the architect iso trying to chroot into system and uninstall the old nvidia driver and replace it. I saw I had both installed (450xx and 455xx) and i ran ‘sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-450xx’ and then immediately ‘sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300’ (I think this was wrong too according to manjaro forum
It seemed to uninstall the 450xx driver just fine but when I installed the 455xx driver, the screen went blank again in chroot.
I have removed the 455xx driver and added the 450xx driver. ‘pacman -Ss | grep nvidia’ shows me a bunch of drivers still but mhwd -li shows me just video-linux and 455xx driver. all of this in chroot, closely following link posted above. I still do not get any screen output after selecting partition in bios
there seems to be no way to access my system outside of chroot.
What can I do to safely fix these mistakes? I want to not be so hasty and make sure I am doing the right thing.