[SOLVED] SDDM, and startx not working, wifi also not working but that is secondary

[potent heath]

i just reinstalled arch after destroying my last install on accident lol plea

[quasi willow]

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[quasi willow]

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[vale pebble]

Elaborate

[potent heath]

oh well i destroyed it by uninstalling openssl which messed some other things up and i got lazy, backed up my home drive, and reinstalled

👽

[quasi willow]

Elaborate on your issue with sddm, not your previous install

Send logs, screenshots, any info

[potent heath]

oh sorry lol

startx crashes with this

sddm is just a black screen

[tawdry pewter]

what GPU brand do you have?

[potent heath]

nvidia

i already configured rhe drivers

using nvidia-all

[tawdry pewter]

oh, nouveau

[quasi willow]

Lol

[potent heath]

yeah

[tawdry pewter]

you probably don't want to use that

it isn't very good

[quasi willow]

What gpu do u have

[tawdry pewter]

no, they need nvidia-dkms

they're on zen

[potent heath]

yeah

[tawdry pewter]

and their GPU is in the screenshot lol

[quasi willow]

Yeah I didn't pay attention

[tawdry pewter]

but yeah, I'd recommended trying the proprietary driver

[potent heath]

sad

it worked perfectly on my last build

but i can try it

[tawdry pewter]

hm

I can't find nvidia-tkg in the AUR, so that's weird

run pacman -Rns nvidia-dkms-tkg nvidia-utils-tkg to remove it

[potent heath]

it still wont work lol

[crystal hound]

try uninstalling steam and then try it again

hopefully it's just steam with that dep

alternatively I think a -dd might ignore dpendencies?

can't remember if all paru flags are the same as pacman so if you try that try it on pacman?

[tawdry pewter]

ah the steam vulkun dependency

[potent heath]

ah

[crystal hound]

or --nodeps instead for no dependencies looking at the man page

[quasi willow]

pacman -Q | grep nvidia-all

[crystal hound]

why not just grep nvidia?

[quasi willow]

Sure also works

Im looking for this specific pkg tho

[crystal hound]

ahh okay

[potent heath]

i dont have the nvidia-all pakage

i got it from git and made the package myselff

[crystal hound]

what kernel are you using?

[potent heath]

linux-zen

👽

[crystal hound]

I'm not super knowledgable on different kernels, but aren't tkg and zen different things?

either way, you should at least try to uninstall the nvidia-tkg packages properly, and then install nvidia-dkms

I don't really understand why you didn't go through the repos

[quasi willow]

Maybe installing nvidia-all can help resolve dependencies

https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all

Then you can uninstall and get nvidia-dkms

[tawdry pewter]

I don't see how that would help

the issue is that you can't uninstall the drivers because steam requires a vulkun driver

[crystal hound]

sure, but if it was me I'd just install steam, uninstall the drivers, install the needed drivers and reinstall steam, provided they have linux-headers install nvidia-dkms should I think be the answer, which happens to be your thoughts as well right?

[tawdry pewter]

yeah uninstalling steam temporarily is probably the best option

[quasi willow]

Because this is an old version of tkg driver...

now it's nvidia-all

[potent heath]

i said i did that

[potent heath]

i just uninstalled

steam

[potent heath]

?

[tawdry pewter]

ok, now run this again

[potent heath]

ok startx works

let me check sddm

uhh

sddm nope

no errors it just doenst really do anything

[tawdry pewter]

did you install nvidia-dkms?

and reboot?

[potent heath]

mhm

yupp

[potent heath]

nvm.,

it no worky again

out of jowhere

[crystal hound]

you said you didn't use pacman or the aur for installation, I'm not sure why your first thought was to do that

[potent heath]

for nvidia-all?

[crystal hound]

I'm referencing you to you, I'm not sure why this is a confusing concept...

[potent heath]

sorry im stupid

lol

just what i ended up doing i guess

i understand the question now i misread your question lol

still very confused at this issue

ad sddm just seems to hang here

[quasi willow]

Why are you trying to start sddm like that

Did you enable the service?

[potent heath]

yeah

i just realized

wtf

i dont have

my linux zen headers lol

got the headers

enabled sddm and ran startx

wifi was because of headers too

[quasi willow]

Cool

... close

[celest coyote]

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[potent heath]

bru

[quasi willow]

?

[potent heath]

👽

thabks for all the help guys

i love you guys

[SOLVED] SDDM, and startx not working, wifi also not working but that is secondary

[potent heath]

fuck word