Greetings,
Firstly, let me say that I’ve spent months on and off looking at dozens of posts here and other places before posting here. I am a 1-2 year intermediate newbie to Linux and Manjaro, but I’m not totally clueless. I can use the command line and terminal somewhat comfortably but interpreting and diagnosing issues from lines on the screen is not my strong suit. There’s no “official” ranking i guess, but if I see “you have to do this” and theres not a plain english description to go with i may struggle. dont be afraid to hold my hand or assume im totally unaware, i wont take it personally. Do not assume i know that i need to do ‘X’ in order to do ‘Y’ and tell me just to do ‘Y’.
I have a computer with and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super, and i am running Manjaro Gnome (i want to transfer to KDE or XFCE but thats another post) with 5.15.60-1 [just installed it with tty1] 5.13.19-2 and 4.14.290-1. I have two physical and separate hard drives, one with Manjaro, the other with Windows 10 exclusively for gaming, so it’s not really a dual boot… both are 1TB so confusing them might be an issue. I’d need to be careful with /sda/ stuff, and my lack of experience means im not confident in making sure which is which in the terminal. A GUI would be fine.
Some exposition: After updating majaro, the 5.13 stopped booting. it went to the black screen and unable to get to a command line, though 4.14 was still working after some fiddling on my end, which involved a timeshift useage. Somewhere along the lines i tried installing new drivers but it failed. I updated the system and it bricked the 4.14 as well. I have diagnosed this as an issue with the video drivers. I just downloaded the 5.15 kernel using TTY after editing ‘rw quiet’ to ‘rw 3’
Things I have tried: updating the system (pacman -Syu and others in tty), pressing CTRL+ALT+F1-12 on the black screen (and ALT and CTRL separately) and not getting a command line, messing around on the GRUB command line (version 2.06~2~manjaro), trying different settings in the Edit Boot Options of the splash screen
ISSUE: I have the usual black screen of death with a fast blinking cursor, and usually the three dots stuck on the screen.
Capabilities: I can TTY into my system. I can live boot with my USB (i have manjaro XFCE 21.3.0-220617linux515 to be exact) and i can chroot -a (i forget the exact command) and mount my hard drive and access it through the terminal. On the Live boot it asks which drivers to use when i launch the liveUSB and it works with the proprietary drivers and open source drivers.
I’m thinking I need to download the new NVIDIA/open source drivers and update them. But I just cant do it with TTY or the live USB, i cant find anywhere describing how to do it.
P.S. I read somewhere that 5.13 was losing its support and the drivers were not compatible if they were updated. I’m not sure why I had that in the first place, but thats the core of this issue.
P.P.S. Alternatively, if i can install the new version from the liveUSB and keep everything on the drive (like a migration i guess) i wouldnt have to worry about it, but lets try to install the drivers first please. Whatever information you need, please let me know, i can use the terminal. I ask do not be quick to send me somewhere else, I’ve most likely seen it and tried it. Like I said I’ve spent several months on and off trying to fix this.
Thank you.