#dual screen going black and freezing [solved]

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cerulean dune
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@sick seal

sick seal
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ok what de

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or window manager

cerulean dune
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KDE

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graphics card is 1660ti

sick seal
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wayland or xorg

cerulean dune
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nvidia-smi

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cerulean dune
sick seal
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output of echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE?

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should be xorg

cerulean dune
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x11

sick seal
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or x11

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ok uhh

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have you used nvidia-xconfig

cerulean dune
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basically it keeps just either freezing, going black, or when I boot it wont let my type my password in till I unplug the hdmi

sick seal
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also, are you on optimus?

cerulean dune
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dont think so no

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cerulean dune
sick seal
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huh strange

cerulean dune
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I dont think I have optimus installed

sick seal
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try installing nvidia-lts

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cerulean dune
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does not want lts

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il update see if that helps

sick seal
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what.

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ok that is really weird wtf

cerulean dune
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just needed to update repos

sick seal
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reboot after its done installing

cerulean dune
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aight all done

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should I just wait to see if it does funky stuff or not?

sick seal
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i assume you rebooted?

cerulean dune
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yeah I did

sick seal
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if its still being funky

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try also using the linux-lts kernel

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(which iirc nvidia-lts supports but you might need dkms(

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if you still get issues even after using the lts kernel then ping me

cerulean dune
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okay il see what happens

sick seal
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some gpus and motherboards just hate linux, too

cerulean dune
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yeah ive noticed linux doesnt enjoy having to work with gpus lol

sick seal
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nvidia support was kinda yucky for linux

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but it is getting better

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sometimes ive gotten better performance in games, sometimes worse

cerulean dune
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idk how to fix it and it usually only lasts a few seconds

sick seal
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try installing gamemoderun

cerulean dune
sick seal
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i think the package name is gamemoderun or gamemode

cerulean dune
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what does it do?

sick seal
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adds a bunch of optimizations to games

cerulean dune
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ah sick okay

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do I need to cinfigure it?

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sick seal
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unless you have an integrated gpu, you shouldnt need prime-run

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it could also just be a desktop issue

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you could try to install gnome /shrug

cerulean dune
sick seal
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ah ok

cerulean dune
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I just dont like the UI

sick seal
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then prime-run gamemoderun %command%

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you could try i3?

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it looks bad out of the box but after some customization you can get it looking nice

cerulean dune
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I still have gnome installed cus it was my started DE and I cant uninstall it cus everything breaks

sick seal
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there are a lot of good window managers

sick seal
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wdym

cerulean dune
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so I swapped from gnome to KDE, but when I try uninstalling gnome to free up some space everything breaks and ive gotta boot into command line and reinstall gnome

cerulean dune
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@sick seal all seems to be working fine, guess its just arch being arch thanks for the help

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cerulean dune
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I do have another quick question if you dont mind

sick seal
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... solved

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sick seal
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whats ur question tho

cerulean dune
# sick seal whats ur question tho

so I dual boot with windows just to play games arch doesnt like, if I update my graphics drivers for gpu through windows can that fuck with my arch install?

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dual screen going black and freezing [solved]

sick seal
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actually

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if its on the same drive

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windows sometimes likes to delete grub

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thats all i know tho

cerulean dune
sick seal
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ight u should be fine then

cerulean dune
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so I should be all good to update drivers?

sick seal
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mhm