I was having serious difficulties with my PC and eventually I erased the disk and did a full reinstall to the latest version of Manjaro, this time specifying Swap without Hibernation.
Now my system is working like a charm. So far.
I would like to ask how i can optimise this fresh reinstall. What I did was in this order: 1) reinstall with the live USB 2) run sudo pacman -Syu and then reboot the computer after updating, 3) create a Timeshift snapshot, set to 2 monthly, 4) change to local mirrors 4) open the firewall.
I hope the order in which i did this will not affect system performance.
Now I would like to ask for help to 1) install and optimise Nvidia drivers
2) update the BIOS (if still necessary), 3) make sure the SSD is working optimally.
I would also like to ask if there is anything else I should do for optimising performance.
The way the PC is working after the reinstall seems to suggest there is no hardware issue (the problems I had before included system freezing and taking 30 minutes to boot) but it may be too early to tell.
when i installed Manjaro i chose boot with non free driver which installed Nvidia for me.
i donāt know how to do it in the CLI but there is the "manjaro system manager"and in there āHardware configurationā where you can install using a GUI.
The GUI also didnāt work. I tried following instructions here Install NVIDIA Drivers on Manjaro Linux for manually installing the Nvidia drivers and all went well until the final step.
Now I donāt know if i need to reinstall grub, can anyone help?
[manupc30@manupc-ms7d ~]$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for manupc30:
sudo: update-grub: command not found
Edit: I used sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and it seems to be working,
The context is my system became barely functional before i did the reinstall, as posted in my previous topic. i wanted to make sure a new reinstall wouldnāt run into any possible mistakes i had made in my first setup.
Now it is doing the same thing, ie. getting stuck for 30 minutes on the logo. (I had to boot with a live USB to write to this forum.) I think it may be a hardware-related problem after all and perhaps i now need to take it in for repairs.
3/ For Timeshift, I would do only manual snapshot when I fell like it, instead of automatic one because it is more logical to me, nothing automated, and you manually manage your snapshot before a big update, or when you try to modify something in the system for tests.
4/ What do you mean local mirrors, you mean official Manjaro mirror from your country?
5/ What do you mean, there is nothing to open unless you have specific use case of your Manjaro computer over the internetā¦ very unlikely I would guess so there is nothing to open in the firewall (and what do you call āthe firewallā?)
As told in the previous thread, before you update your BIOS, make sure to have a Manjaro live USB to restore GRUB after BIOS update. Alternatively, make sure to install the install-grub package and run it once sudo install-grub to sync the Manjaro bootloader and the default bootloader that the motherboard will auto detect after the BIOS update.
To update the BIOS is usually as simple as downloading the latest BIOS for your motherboard, put it on a FAT32 formatted USB, reboot into the BIOS, and use the BIOS update dedicated menu and follow procedure on screen.
Thereās not really anything to do, as said make sure TRIM service is enabled (I would assume it is by default)
Remove the additional package you installed xfce4-sensors-plugin and follow the procedure again to install NVidia drivers
I thought 2 monthly automatic Timeshift snapshots in case of an unexpected crash, but maybe not necessary.
I meant change to the mirrors of my country. I forgot the word ālocalā has a systems meaning too.
Open the firewall is more clumsy phrasing. I meant turn on the firewall, which i did with the GUI.
I think i just missed the option to install the Nvidia drivers. I have been struggling to do this. I followed Install NVIDIA Drivers on Manjaro Linux but a step required me to reboot before i actually installed the drivers. I havenāt been able to get to my system again. This is why I think maybe the problem is hardware.
I will now have to update the BIOS through chroot. Maybe I will just let it be. How necessary is it?
No you will not, unless you have one of the specifically supported motherboard by the tool fwupdrfwupd - ArchWiki
You update the BIOS from the motherboard menu, from the BIOS itself.
Maybe for your GT 730 card you need the old legacy 390 drivers instead of the more recent legacy 470 driver (for which your card should be compatible but maybe there is an issue I donāt know).
You didnāt tell if you install Manjaro with the proprietary/nonfree drivers, or if you installed with the free drivers. It was one of the option before booting to the installer desktop. //EDIT: I read your inxi output now that it is readable, you didnāt install Manjaro with proprietary drivers indeed.
PS: no need to ping everyone all the time, people who reply to a thread will receive notifications of new message, unless they manually disable notification for the thread (in which case they donāt want notification ).
As previously mentioned, the mainboard manufacturer site should usually have instructions for upgrading a BIOS. And, look, here it is:
The procedure has nothing to do with Manjaro or chroot.
Updating the BIOS can sometimes solve issues no matter what OS you happen to be using. I note there have been quite a few updates made available in recent times, and thatās often an indicator to keep a close eye on it.
I note there are also other firmware updates listed. Those should likely be handled via Windows; again, please search the MSI site for information needed,
I booted to open source drivers when using the live USB because booting with proprietary drivers takes so much longer. I could do another install with booting to proprietary drivers, but I am hoping I can still install the nonfree drivers another way.
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