#[SOLVED] System frozen after enabling gdm

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tough crescent
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i still don't know why everything go so wrong for this installation

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if somebody replied please ping me i'll be back when i wake up

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thank you

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tough crescent
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okay hi

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i have nvidia mx450 and 11th gen i5

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hello there

fathom sand
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alright alrigjt

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so what is your bootloader

tough crescent
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grub

fathom sand
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grub i assume?

tough crescent
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yep

fathom sand
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ok

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so

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first, you need to blacklist nouveau

tough crescent
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okay lemme just mount my partitions...

fathom sand
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you can google how to do this as i dont know off the top of my head

fathom sand
tough crescent
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no i can't even open tty

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it's just frozen

fathom sand
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can you switch tty?

tough crescent
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can't

fathom sand
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did the cursor blink or just freeze

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ok

tough crescent
fathom sand
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alr

tough crescent
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i looked up and everyone says it was blinking

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something's very wrong

fathom sand
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ok

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uhh

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@tough crescent try making a file, /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with the contents:

blacklist nouveau
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lmk when ur done, theres more

tough crescent
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ye i probably done this a few times before with my friend

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it just doesn't work

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but i'll try

fathom sand
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alr

tough crescent
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done

fathom sand
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next, edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

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hold on

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lemme find the line to edit bc i forogr

tough crescent
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lol

fathom sand
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@tough crescent there should be a line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

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it says 'kms' on it

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edit that line and remove 'kms'

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optionally, set the MODULES array to MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

tough crescent
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HOOKS?

fathom sand
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uhhh

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yes

tough crescent
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sure?

fathom sand
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yep

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just remove kms

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from the array

tough crescent
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nice

fathom sand
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if u want you can also change the MODULES areay

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array*

tough crescent
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done!

fathom sand
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ok

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now

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edit /etc/default/grub

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there should be a line in that file something like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet"

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yep

tough crescent
fathom sand
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so in this case, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 ibt=off quiet"

fathom sand
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edit it accordingly to what its currently set to

tough crescent
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yep i got cryt in it 😂

fathom sand
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after that,

mkinitcpio -P
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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if you really want to be cautious

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disable gdm on boot

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yep

fathom sand
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you should do this and just manually start it for now

tough crescent
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mhm

fathom sand
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if it works fine on a manual start

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then enable it

tough crescent
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and then gonna freeze again lol

fathom sand
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otherwise, try sddm or another login manager

tough crescent
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ooo right

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why didn't i think of that

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reboot now wish me luck

fathom sand
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when it boots just manually start

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systemctl start gdm

tough crescent
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forgor to disable gdm 💀

fathom sand
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does it work

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gdm is big stupid

tough crescent
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IT WORKED IT WORKED

fathom sand
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NICE

tough crescent
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OMG

fathom sand
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ok so

tough crescent
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FIRST TIME GETTING NVIDIA WORKING ON ARCH

fathom sand
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lemme explain what i made you do

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so basically when you just ran pacman -S nvidia

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you kinda didnt update your kernel for nvidia

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so it did nothing

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your kernel was still loading nouveau

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thats what the mkinitcpio thing did

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nouveau is the driver, thats why you blacklisted it

tough crescent
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ohh

fathom sand
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ibt=off is a kernel parameter, it just makes nvidia be less buggy

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and work better

tough crescent
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fathom sand
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np!

tough crescent
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where do you find all these stuff tho

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and do i have to install xorg for xorg session? i thought it was pre installed

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thanks :)

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[SOLVED] System frozen after enabling gdm

fathom sand
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i went through my message history since ive said how to do some things, mixed with some googling

tough crescent
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