Hi Everyone,
I am using an Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 Laptop and have been running Manjaro Cinnamon along side WIndows for a few months without any problems now. The Laptop has AMD onboard graphics and a RTX 3080 Laptop discreet graphics card built in as well. Yesterday I decided to give Manjaro Gnome 21.0.7 a try and installed it over the Cinnamon edition. I choose the “non-free driver” option at installation. The installation went fine, but then after reboot I would get a black screen. Using ctrl-alt-F2 I was able to login though and use the “startx” command to get into the gui.
I couldn’t sort out the problem, so I installed Manjaro again using the “free driver” option. This time I was able to boot into the gui. I then went over to the Manjaro Settings and had a look at the available drivers. The free driver was obviosuly installed, but there ewre two others availble. The Nvidia driver and the hybrid-amd-nvidia driver, If I can call it that. Through some trial and error I discovered that if I installed the hybrid driver it wouldnt boot into the GUI. but if I installed the nvidia only driver it worked and I could boot successfully. However,…there is a huge 1.2GB update that you need to do on the GNOME version right after installation that upates to GNOME 40 I believe. And after I do the update, I am unable to boot into the gui anymore. Not only that, but if I login using the tty and use the startx command it just hangs and doesnt allow me into the GUI anymore.
Right now I’ve done the installation over again with the free drivers and hopefully someone here can help me sort this out. I have done research since yesterday trying to fix this but nothing has helped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the output of inxi -Fazy:
System:
Kernel: 5.10.53-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=74420fea-dc67-49b4-acf3-967b93c3d090 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 40.3 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QS_GA503QS
v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GA503QS v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: GA503QS.410 date: 05/18/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 67.9 Wh (75.4%) condition: 90.1/90.0 Wh (100.1%)
volts: 15.9 min: 15.9 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Discharging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 30.83 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (8.9%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 family: 19 (25) model-id: 50 (80) stepping: 0
microcode: A50000C cache: L2: 4 MiB bogomips: 105442
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1197 2: 1197 3: 1197 4: 1197 5: 1197 6: 1197 7: 1196 8: 1196 9: 1342
10: 1335 11: 1198 12: 1198 13: 1197 14: 1196 15: 1197 16: 1197
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists erms extapic extd_apicid f16c
flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs
invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor
movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx ospke osvw
overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core
perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru
rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce
topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall
vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: always-on, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile / Max-Q 8GB/16GB]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A alternate: nouveau bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:249c class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Cezanne vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
loaded: amdgpu note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root display-ID: 0
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.53-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 06:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-4: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.53-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:5
chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 983.64 GiB used: 10.17 GiB (1.0%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM001TD3JX013N
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 41000C20 temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Kingston
model: DataTraveler G3 size: 29.77 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%)
used: 10.14 GiB (5.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
label: N/A uuid: 74420fea-dc67-49b4-acf3-967b93c3d090
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 27.3 MiB (28.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: N/A uuid: E490-F58E
ID-3: /home/<filter>/pCloudDrive raw-size: N/A size: 500 GiB
used: 367.53 GiB (73.5%) fs: fuse source: ERR-102
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 757.93 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: A458957F589550C2
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 524 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 80AAAE61AAAE5406
ID-4: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 2.7 GiB fs: iso9660
ID-5: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI
uuid: 3491-2D7B
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-2:3 info: Kingston DataTraveler G3 type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA
chip-ID: 0951:1643 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-3:4 info: ASUSTek N-KEY Device type: Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b05:19b6 class-ID: 0301
Device-4: 1-4:5 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Shenzhen Goodix FingerPrint type: <vendor specific>
driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 27c6:521d class-ID: ff00
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 55.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200
Info:
Processes: 371 Uptime: 33m wakeups: 5 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1159 lib: 297 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh
v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.06
Thanks in advance!
Welcome to Manjaro! 
