[Solved!!!] need help with arch installation

[sacred talon]

type in
sudo nano .xinitrc

ah..yea ig so

[tranquil cedar]

like so?

[sacred talon]

yeah

[tranquil cedar]

So I would type that in the ini

[sacred talon]

xrandr --output DP-3 --mode 2560x1440 --rate 165

[dense tartan]

Is xinitrc even ran when using a DM?

[tranquil cedar]

Does this look correct?

[sacred talon]

make it 165 since u said ur screen is 165hz

instead of that 144

[tranquil cedar]

Changed it

[sacred talon]

save and restart

[sacred talon]

did she install a dm ?

[dense tartan]

Yeah

[sacred talon]

@tranquil cedar did it work ?

[sacred talon]

stuck on that ? huh

u sure ur monitor hz is 165 ?

[tranquil cedar]

Yea

[sacred talon]

well if its still stcuk then boot to the arch iso and mount ur partitions and remove that line from .initrc and it will be fine

[tranquil cedar]

Oki

[dense tartan]

You should try accessing a TTY first

[tranquil cedar]

Already tried it did nothing

[dense tartan]

Hm

[tranquil cedar]

So I have to remount my partitions each time I enter the iso

[sacred talon]

just to remove the line we added

[tranquil cedar]

So would I do mount /dev/nvme0n1p2?

[sacred talon]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt
nano .xinitrc

[tranquil cedar]

Oki

[sacred talon]

@dense tartan chroot is fine yea ? just making sure

[tranquil cedar]

Tf

[sacred talon]

can u show me lsblk ?

[dense tartan]

they need to mount the root first

[dense tartan]

before the boot

[sacred talon]

ah

[tranquil cedar]

So what order do I do?

[sacred talon]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

[tranquil cedar]

There we go

[sacred talon]

now do chroot

arch-chroot /mnt
nano .xinitrc

[tranquil cedar]

Tf

[sacred talon]

maybe exit from chroot then then type sudo nano .xinitrc

[tranquil cedar]

Do I enter into a dif chroot?

Or jus from the iso

[sacred talon]

no just type exit then sudo nano .xinitrc

[sacred talon]

huh ? thats really strange..wait

[tranquil cedar]

Hm?

[sacred talon]

nano /mnt/etc/.xinitrc

try this

[tranquil cedar]

Alr

[sacred talon]

tf is wrong uh..wait

[tranquil cedar]

Should I try it in chroot?

[sacred talon]

yea give it a try

[tranquil cedar]

Nope still nothing

Maybe we werent supposed to do it in nano but jus the terminal?

Bc xrandr is the program ye?

[sacred talon]

it is but it cant be open with gui..u can manage it with terminal

[tranquil cedar]

Yeah thats what I meant

Try querying for any x type file?

[dense tartan]

isn't it in their home directory?

[tranquil cedar]

Yeah Jodi is helping

[grand gull]

Did this get fixed?

[tranquil cedar]

Jodi helped and it was thru a lotta gpu troubleshooting tomfoolery

[grand gull]

Ah but it's working now after the troubleshooting?

[tranquil cedar]

Mhm

[dense tartan]

So what's the issue right now?

[tranquil cedar]

Nothin rn actually

Jus eating lol

[dense tartan]

we can fix that

[tranquil cedar]

Lmfao

[dense tartan]

Based off the message history it seemed you switched back to SDDM?

[grand gull]

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

[tranquil cedar]

Yee

Lelll

[grand gull]

Probably a good idea lol

Sorry, I just went into autopilot during the install lol

[tranquil cedar]

No worries I cant blame ya

It was probs burned into ur skull after learning arch

[grand gull]

Yeh def

[tranquil cedar]

I'm now back

[grand gull]

Cool

[tranquil cedar]

Welp I'm gonna be in vc

[grand gull]

So do your games seem to be working?

[tranquil cedar]

Havent tried yet but I'm gonna try ina feew

Yeah they seem to be working

[grand gull]

Nice!

[tranquil cedar]

Devil Daggers isnt green anymore lmfao

[grand gull]

Wonder what was going on before

[tranquil cedar]

Probs somethin todo with the drivers

[grand gull]

Maybe

[tranquil cedar]

Dead estate is working tooo

[grand gull]

Sweet

[safe wagon]

Based game

[tranquil cedar]

lmao

I love Dead Estate its one of my favs

[safe wagon]

Wdym it's not green

[tranquil cedar]

It was green lmao lemme get the screen shots

@safe wagon

[safe wagon]

That's odd lol

[tranquil cedar]

I've been thru hell and back tryna get arch to cooperate and its been worth it

[grand gull]

I thought it might've been a Wayland thing last time, so that's why I checked you were running Xorg earlier

[tranquil cedar]

Well it was connected jus to Nvidia

And then something else I cant remember the name of'

[grand gull]

Yeah who knows, it's working now and that's what matters

[tranquil cedar]

Indeed

Thank god we didnt have to resort to pop os

[grand gull]

Yeah, well I do hear Pop!_OS is good tbh, but it is really satisfying to get an arch installation set up and working how you like it

[tranquil cedar]

No kidding

[tranquil cedar]

Ok so each time I boot into kde I have to replug in my mouse anyway I can fix that>

?**

Or will I jus have to suffer thru that

@safe wagon

[safe wagon]

I have no idea, can't see anything on openrazer's site
Maybe you should open an issue on their GitHub page

[tranquil cedar]

Alrighty thanks

Oh I figured it out I needa install an application that actually makes use of open razer

So wait after I install anything razer I have to regen the grub shiz ye?

Or no?

@sacred talon could you elaborate on what constitutes regenin grub files?

[sacred talon]

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[tranquil cedar]

Would I have to do that each time I use yay -S?

[safe wagon]

You shouldn't have to since it's a dkms module, it's not built into the kernel or initramfs or anything

[tranquil cedar]

Ahh alrighty

[safe wagon]

No
You only need to regen grub when you make changes to your kernel

so after updating it or removing something from mkinitcpio (your initramfs)

[tranquil cedar]

ahh alrighty thanks for the clarification :3

[dense tartan]

no?

you should very rarely need to regenerate your grub config

[sacred talon]

as far as ik it should only be only when changing anythin in the kernel

[safe wagon]

Yeah? When did I say anything else

You need to regenerate the grub config any time you change your kernel or your initramfs

[dense tartan]

If by change, you mean update, no, you don't

[safe wagon]

What are you talking about
If you update your kernel or initramfs, your bootloader won't use it until you regenerate the grub config

[sacred talon]

well..updating kernel doesnt require regenerating grub

[safe wagon]

It doesn't require it but you will be using the old version then

[sacred talon]

nope...restart and type in terminal uname -r

u will see its the latest

[frozen mulch]

yeah

[safe wagon]

maybe arch doesn't keep old kernel versions around
Usually it's name would be prefixed by it's version so you'd need to update grub to get it to see the new file

[frozen mulch]

it only does if you configure it

[sacred talon]

nope..cause ive had issues with old kernel and after updating it ..it worked perfectly fine without regenerating grub

[sacred talon]

yea exactly

[dense tartan]

It has the same file name, it will use it

[safe wagon]

Then yeah since arch only keeps the latest kernel and initramfs you only need to regen grub if you changed your grub config ig

[tranquil cedar]

Welp I have more issues now

I have a sneaking suspicion it had something to do with razer

[sacred talon]

what have u done to get at this

[tranquil cedar]

Nothing I think sddm broke

[sacred talon]

cant u just use tty ? or u just dont like it at all ?

[tranquil cedar]

I was able to login thru the broken sddm

[sacred talon]

i mean tty to login everytime u reboot..and disable sddm..but if ur uncomfy with that then im not sure

[tranquil cedar]

I think maybe starting it thru startx might’ve been what it was doing

Bc each time I boot into kde it shows the screen which I saw when I booted thru startx

[sacred talon]

so when u type startx u also get the sddm ?

[tranquil cedar]

Mhm

[sacred talon]

ig u should disable sddm then since u already use startx to boot to kde

[tranquil cedar]

But I dont wanna use startx I wanna use sddm

[sacred talon]

well not sure about that, ask jodi she might help u with that and disable tty from appearing once u boot up

[tranquil cedar]

No its not tty appearing its legit like automatically

Not autologin but keeping the session or something

My graphics driver seems to have panicked

[dense tartan]

The theme might be messed up

[tranquil cedar]

So that might be what thru my graphics driver ina loop?

[safe wagon]

Did you do anything before this happened?

[tranquil cedar]

I mean wanted to get a new sddm theme thru the gui and go tone

got one**

[safe wagon]

Yeah that could definitely do it, I don't have experience with sddm theming but that doesn't sound unlikely

[dense tartan]

Try switching back to the default theme

[safe wagon]

I'd personally try uninstalling the theme, idk how but there's probably some ~/.local/share/sddm` directory with themes

If you can get back to the GUI theme selector you can try that but if it caused this idk if you should trust it to clean it up

[tranquil cedar]

Meaning?

[dense tartan]

What?

[sacred talon]

whats unclear about what she said ?

[tranquil cedar]

So she was saying In shouldnt trust the gui to remove the theme that caused this

[dense tartan]

Just try the GUI and if that doesn't work manually remove it

[tranquil cedar]

I mean it seems to have removed it should I try rebooting?

[dense tartan]

Sure

[tranquil cedar]

Thru the systemctl reboot ya?

[dense tartan]

That works

[safe wagon]

You can just do sudo reboot, it's the same

[tranquil cedar]

alrighty

Alrighty it worked :3

[safe wagon]

in fact its literally the same file

[tranquil cedar]

Interesting

At least I can tell I'm starting to familiarize myself with this stuff

[dense tartan]

shutdown -r now

[tranquil cedar]

I dont trust you on that one lmfao

[sacred talon]

its restart

[safe wagon]

fun fact this is also the same as systemctl

[sacred talon]

uh

[tranquil cedar]

Yayy I'm learning

[dense tartan]

you can also just use the restart option from plasma lol

[sacred talon]

wow learning how to reboot and shutdown...u kidding right ?

[safe wagon]

(if you are wondering how this works, look at the systemctl source code. It checks if the executable name is "reboot" or "shutdown" or "init" and does different stuff depending on it, which is stupid but it's cool)

[tranquil cedar]

I mean different way to do the same thing lol

[safe wagon]

Do you know about the false command though
Its probably the most useful one

[tranquil cedar]

I dont know bout it enlighten me

[safe wagon]

it does 1 thing: returns 1 as it's error code
That is all

Its completely useless and is mandated to be included in every Linux (or posix) system which is nice

[tranquil cedar]

lol

Also what does ricing mean?

[safe wagon]

Its just a word for customizing how your desktop looks

comes from race car driving I think

[tranquil cedar]

Maybe ina bit I'd want some help ricing my desktop

[sacred talon]

yt n google are ur friends cause its a personal preference

[tranquil cedar]

Fair enough

Then I'll do it later

[tranquil cedar]

Ok network manager is refusing to work

[dense tartan]

Can you elaborate?

[tranquil cedar]

So basically whenever I go into connection in system settings its not showing my connection to my wifi even tho I'm using wifi

[safe wagon]

@tranquil cedar does ping google.com work

[tranquil cedar]

yeah

But I'm talking about the plasma gui

[safe wagon]

idk blame plasma, it has nothing to do with network manager

[dense tartan]

You don't have any other network software enabled, right?

[tranquil cedar]

Yeah I dont

[dense tartan]

Can you show the output of systemctl status NetworkManager?

[sacred talon]

she doesnt use NM as i remember, she uses dhcpcd.

[dense tartan]

well they just said this

[sacred talon]

dont think she installed nm cuase last time she was installing arch plasma she installed the dhcpcd and internet was working fine

[safe wagon]

If she uses wifi she would probably either be using iwd or network manager

If she isn't using network manager that makes sense since the kde tool only sees stuff network manager reports

[grand gull]

Last I remember, I'm pretty sure she was using iwd with dhcpcd

[safe wagon]

Then yeah that's why it doesnt work

Technically you can use iwd as a backend to network manager if you want the GUI to work

[grand gull]

I don't remember for sure