Maybe I’m late to the party as my laptop is only used for work and I had vacation until yesterday. So yesterday I ran the update for the first in 2 weeks, and now my laptop can’t boot anymore. It get’s stuck at Finished TLP system startup/shutdown. I can still get to TTY2. I checked the update and I’m near certain it’s the change in Nvidia drivers. That has always been an issue for me.
I really need this laptop for work as well as that I have an important test comming up for school in which I really need to use it, so any help is very appriciated.
Around two years ago when I got my laptop, it somehow didn’t want to work with the bumblebee drivers. Instead I had to install the nvidia propriety drivers and manually write stuff in xorg. It always ran on nvidia drivers so I could never use the Intel integrated graphics, but it did work and I could use my videocard (using the videocard is important for me).
Now with the new update my laptop won’t boot. I noticed it installed video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime, I removed it and installed the video-nvidia one, which installed fine but my computer still won’t boot.
Then I tried installing the nouveau drivers using sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300. I only see Intel related things installing, and the system still won’t boot. When trying to use sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 it gives an error because video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime conflicts with video-nvidia.
My laptop has a GTX1050. My laptop has been very picky on drivers. Last one that worked was 430xx, newer ones broke my system also. I also tried reinstalling the old driver using sudo mhwd -i pci video-nividia-430xxx but it just tells me video-nvidia-430xxx doesn’t exist.
Right now mhwd -li gives
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2020.11.30 false PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Warning: No installes USB configs!
I ran inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width but half of it goes off-screen. I’m on desktop writing this but here’s a foto (open in new tab to make it readable):
Some other info:
yay -Q | grep nvidia gives
lib32-nvidia-utils 455.45.01-3
linux414-nvidia 455.45.01-4
linux419-nvidia 455.45.01-4
linux54-nvidia 455.45.011-6
mhwd-nvidia 455.45.01-3
mhwd-nvidia-340xx 340.108-1
mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.138-1
nvidia-utils 455.45.01-2
nvidia-smi tells me I indeed have driver version 455.45.01 now. I think maybe my laptop still won’t work with anything higher than 430, so maybe rolling it back would be a first option? However, I don’t know how.
The previous issue where I couldn’t get a newer driver than 430xx is here: Boot stuck after update
The issue where I had to install Nvidia only drivers and write stuff for Xorg manually was on the old forums and can be found here: Nvidia proprietary drivers not installable - Drivers - Manjaro Linux Forum