Unable to start Wayland session after last update

I am unable to reboot into a wayland session after update. I have to use x11. Not sure how to troubleshoot this ?

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I installed update but when I reboot into wayland it hangs up. I can log into X11 but not wayland. After several reboots and logging out of x11 and I can get into wayland but can never just reboot into wayland.

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Sorry what dedicated topic ?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.18.39-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 16.1.1 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.18-x86_64
    root=UUID=611e928b-481c-419e-aaea-d6918f6ab698 rw
    rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.3 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks
    v: 6.28.0 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: h8-1124 v: 2.00
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2AC2 v: 2.00
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: QP802AA#ABA
    uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: AMI v: 7.13
    date: 07/22/2011
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.73 GiB
    used: 3.25 GiB (42.0%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 8 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
    max-module-size: 4 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: XMM1 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
    speed: 1333 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
    manufacturer: Hynix part-no: HMT351U6BFR8C-H9 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: XMM3 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
    speed: 1333 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
    manufacturer: Hynix part-no: HMT351U6BFR8C-H9 serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 level: v2 built: 2010-12
    process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7
    microcode: 0x2F
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8
    tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1600 min/max: 1600/3800 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1600 2: 1600
    3: 1600 4: 1600 5: 1600 6: 1600 7: 1600 8: 1600
    bogomips: 54274
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts
    clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
    dtherm dts epb est flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida
    lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc
    nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni
    popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep smx ssbd sse
    sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc
    tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: old_microcode status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass
    disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and
    __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional;
    IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not
    affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 660] vendor: EVGA
    driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
    alternate: nouveau,nova_core,nvidia_drm non-free:
    series: 470.xx+ status: legacy (EOL~2025-09-xx) arch: Kepler-2
    code: GKxxx process: TSMC 28nm built: 2012-2018 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1,DVI-I-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:11c0 class-ID: 0300
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.24 with: Xwayland
    v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: N/A
    failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Dell S2721NX serial: <filter>
    built: 2020 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 75 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 82
    gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.639 y: 0.337 green: x: 0.314
    y: 0.624 blue: x: 0.149 y: 0.055 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9
    modes: 1920x1080, 1600x900, 1280x1024, 1152x864, 1280x720,
    1024x768, 800x600, 720x576, 720x480, 640x480
  Monitor-2: Unknown-1 size-res: N/A modes: 800x600
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast
    surfaceless: drv: swrast wayland: drv: swrast x11: drv: swrast
    inactive: device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: mesa
    v: 26.1.5-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
    renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.8 256 bits)
    device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 7.55 GiB unified: yes
    display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.350 layers: 5 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
    device-ID: 10de:11c0 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor
    gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition
    Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK106 HDMI Audio vendor: EVGA
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1
    chip-ID: 10de:0e0b class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.18.39-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
    tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active with:
    1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43225 802.11b/g/n driver: wl v: kernel
    modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4357 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp5s0 state: dormant mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
    Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd,
    wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom HP Bluethunder driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1.3:3
    chip-ID: 0a5c:217d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 49.59 GiB (10.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges
    required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: SSD
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 465.47 GiB size: 465.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 49.59 GiB (10.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
    label: N/A uuid: 611e928b-481c-419e-aaea-d6918f6ab698
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 664 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
    label: N/A uuid: B9A0-A6DB
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 465.47 GiB size: 465.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 49.59 GiB (10.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
    label: N/A uuid: 611e928b-481c-419e-aaea-d6918f6ab698
  ID-4: /var/cache raw-size: 465.47 GiB
    size: 465.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 49.59 GiB (10.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: 611e928b-481c-419e-aaea-d6918f6ab698
  ID-5: /var/log raw-size: 465.47 GiB size: 465.47 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 49.59 GiB (10.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
    label: N/A uuid: 611e928b-481c-419e-aaea-d6918f6ab698
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.3:3 info: Broadcom HP Bluethunder
    type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
    chip-ID: 0a5c:217d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-1.4:4 info: Alcor Micro Flash Card Reader/Writer
    type: mass storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 250mA
    chip-ID: 058f:6362 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1.5:3 info: Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical
    type: mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1
    speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 045e:0040 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 2-1.6:4 info: Chicony USB Keyboard
    type: keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.0
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 04f2:1060 class-ID: 0300
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1338 libs: 388 tools: pamac
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://coresite.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://forksystems.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    4: https://southfront.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    5: https://mirrors.cicku.me/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    6: https://cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    7: https://mirrors.gigenet.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    8: https://nnenix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    9: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    10: https://mirror.xenyth.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    11: https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    12: https://nocix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    13: https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    14: https://volico.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    15: https://mirrors2.manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
    16: https://irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    17: https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    18: https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/stable/$repo/$arch
    19: https://opencolo.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    20: https://codingflyboy.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    21: https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    22: https://mirrors.sonic.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    23: https://mirror.vinehost.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    24: https://ziply.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    25: https://ask4.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    26: https://mirrors.atlas.net.co/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    27: https://mirrors.ft.uam.es/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    28: https://mirror.rabisu.com/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    29: https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    30: https://ipng.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    31: https://manjaro.mirror.wearetriple.com/stable/$repo/$arch
    32: http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    33: https://mirror.raiolanetworks.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    34: https://mirror.futureweb.be/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    35: https://mirror.init7.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    36: https://mirror.alwyzon.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    37: https://mirror.netcologne.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    38: https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    39: https://manjaro.mirror-services.net/pub/stable/$repo/$arch
    40: https://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    41: https://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
    42: https://mirror.23m.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    43: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    44: https://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    45: https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    46: https://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
    47: https://mirrors.eric.ovh/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    48: https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    49: https://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/manjaro/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
    50: https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    51: https://mirror1.sox.rs/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    52: https://ftpmirror1.infania.net/mirror/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    53: https://ftp.linux.org.tr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    54: https://fosszone.csd.auth.gr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    55: https://manjaro.mirrors.lavatech.top/stable/$repo/$arch
    56: https://manjaro.ipacct.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    57: https://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    58: https://mirror.dkm.cz/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    59: https://gsl-syd.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    60: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    61: https://mirrors.xtom.jp/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    62: https://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    63: https://mirror.it4i.cz/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    64: https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    65: https://linorg.usp.br/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    66: https://mirror.phoepsilonix.love/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    67: https://ct.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    68: https://ftp.psnc.pl/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    69: https://distrohub.kyiv.ua/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    70: https://manjaro.c3sl.ufpr.br/stable/$repo/$arch
    71: https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    72: https://manjaro.mirror.garr.it/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    73: https://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    74: https://mirror.truenetwork.ru/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    75: https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
    76: https://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    77: https://mirror.freedif.org/Manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    78: https://mirror.archlinux.tw/Manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    79: https://manjaro.grena.ge/stable/$repo/$arch
    80: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    81: https://manjaro.repo.cure.edu.uy/stable/$repo/$arch
    82: https://mirror.datacenter.by/pub/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    83: https://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    84: https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    85: https://mirror.dc.uz/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    86: https://mirror.kku.ac.th/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    87: https://mirror.nju.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    88: https://mirror.dimensiondata.com/mirrors/manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
    89: https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    90: https://mirrors.pku.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    91: https://mirror.nyist.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    92: https://mirror.bakertelekom.fr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    93: https://mirrors.up.pt/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    94: https://mirror.telepoint.bg/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 253
  1: cpu: 38.3% command: kwin_wayland pid: 2220
    mem: 402.6 MiB (5.0%)
  2: cpu: 7.7% command: konsole pid: 7460 mem: 134.4 MiB (1.6%)
  3: cpu: 4.5% command: zsh pid: 7472 mem: 10.1 MiB (0.1%)
  4: cpu: 4.4% command: firefox pid: 5523 mem: 613.5 MiB (7.7%)
  5: cpu: 2.4% command: firefox pid: 5654 mem: 392.5 MiB (4.9%)
  Memory top: 5 of 253
  1: mem: 1014.3 MiB (12.8%) command: plasmashell pid: 2327
    cpu: 1.3%
  2: mem: 613.5 MiB (7.7%) command: firefox pid: 5523 cpu: 4.4%
  3: mem: 522.9 MiB (6.6%)
    command: polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 pid: 2356 cpu: 0.0%
  4: mem: 402.6 MiB (5.0%) command: kwin_wayland pid: 2220
    cpu: 38.3%
  5: mem: 392.5 MiB (4.9%) command: firefox pid: 5654 cpu: 2.4%
Info:
  Processes: 253 Power: uptime: 3h 37m states: freeze,mem,disk
    suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform
    avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 3.03 GiB
    services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon, upowerd
    Init: systemd v: 261 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.9.2 running-in: konsole
    inxi: 3.3.41

I’m a guru :slight_smile: Does that help troubleshooting my issue?

It does provide the basic info needed to start finding issues, yes. :smiley:

In the meantime, I’ve tidied this thread up a bit :wink:

Thanks I really appreciate your help

Your system is already old, and the same is true for its Nvidia graphics adapter. I’m afraid your graphics adapter isn’t supported by any of the current proprietary drivers that support Wayland.

To be honest, i don’t think running the proprietary driver would yield any usability benefits on a machine of such low power in this day and age, so perhaps you should consider switching to the GPL’d nouveau driver instead.

Thought Linux was good for old computers. So when wayland goes mainstream I will have to toss it ?

GNU/Linux is. Nvidia on the other hand is a notoriously bad player, and their drivers are proprietary. Furthermore, if you’re buying Nvidia, then you’re buying planned obsolescence.

No, you can use the nouveau driver instead — see my previous post. nouveau is Free Software and is already in the kernel from upstream.

Use open source driver and it should be better than ?

Yes, indeed.

+1 for trying the free driver.
Go to manjaro settings manager → hardware and under nvidia select a free opensource driver instead of the proprietary 470.

I used auto install open source drivers which was sucessful but under video-nvidia-470xx shows installed but not open source. It shows video-linux as installed and open source ,video-modesetting,and video-vesa as open source but not installed

I wouldn’t bother with the VESA driver — it’s for hopelessly outdated hardware. video-linux is the one you need. Uninstall the proprietary driver.

how to uninstall nvidia driver?

I figured it out right click ftw

Ill try rebooting into wayland fingers crossed

Should be no need to cross fingers. I have one old Dell with an old nVidia GPU, it works perfectly with the Open Source Driver.

Thanks tracey :slight_smile: Its works but Brave and chromium browsers dont work. Firefox luckily works !