[SOLVED] pixel's nvidia misadventures

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@ripe atlas @lapis needle @pixel cm'here dammit

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i'm willing to

just keep tagging

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@lapis needle

nekro has do not disturb on

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im here

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so he wont see the highlight

oh finally

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@formal turret how is it going?

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done

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remove the thread

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i think everything is working

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this is ridiculous

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but we didnt installed the new nvidia driver yet

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but glad its working and glad we could help

but you need do installt he new nvidia

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or you you did it by yourself?

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i mean we told him how

maybe he did

maybe using nouveau

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what do you mean

yea installed arch my self fully just

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that's what it reverts to usualy.

it's an open soruce driver

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what we did was removing the old driver, now we need the new one

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needed abit of help with said drivers there were differeent ones

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sudo pacman -S nvidia

start there

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^

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me?

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yes

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you

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no one else is having nvidia problems here

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istalling now

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good

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done

i think

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sudo reboot now

all three words

like that

once he logs in we'll see what happens

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lets see

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wait i forgot nvidia-utils and opencl-nvidia

and others

shit.

it should still boot fine.

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nvidia-settings too

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yeah.

edit this post to have the title "pixel's nvidia thread"

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isnt nvidia-utils a dependency?

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@formal turret remove the kms hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (the line that doesn't have a # before it) if you or archinstall haven't already

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it could

i forget

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pixel's nvidia misadventures

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yeah that title works too

😛

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lol

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its the easiest stuff too

i bet something went wrong

bleh

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it is

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so then it installed anyway

i use nvidia-dkms

cause i use linux-zen

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i use nvidia-dkms-tkg

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never tried that

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i do that because explicit sync

wayland + normal latest nvidia driver = a fucking lot of problems

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yeah.

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help

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what?

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what happend

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my mouse is flashing

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i had a feeling something went wrong

wtf

your mouse is flashing?

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every time i boot

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open a terminal and type "nvidia-smi"

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my screen black

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ctrl+alt+f1

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no

f2

1 is used with boot

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i cant

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why?

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why?

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when put passwoed in goes to black moude flashing

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-_-

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no problem, just do that

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just let it go

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ctrl+alt+f2

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im using my vr rn

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what

vr?

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yeah what

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dont hot a phonevrn

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virtual reality?

using that?

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LOL

wtf

you are using discord on virtual reality?

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i mean

he said vr

and that he doesnt have a phone

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yes

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im an expert in reading typos

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omg im dying

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im on terminal rn

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okay type nvidia-smi like nekro said

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yeah

do that

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you take it from here

i need to piss

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ok

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cdone

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what does it say?

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my driver version

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can it detect your card?

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yea

it done

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do you know if you are using xorg or wayland?

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no what does it say

tell us what it says.

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date driver version

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you said your driver version. what is it

i wanna know

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550.78

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k

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yeah, thats right

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hadt o be sure

had to*

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wait

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i was making sure you had the correct version of the driver installed

thats all

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none of this would have happend had archinstall hadn't been used

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true

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i never use that

i hate archinstall

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my screen black and moude flashing

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i used it twice

just a minute

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i know pixel, hang on

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k

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ill be back in 10 min

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what do we think he should do?

because i never used archinstall

why is it flashing

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after i rebooted it started going werid

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i've never had that happen

i know pixel

while we're at it...

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it faild re boot i think

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y

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how did it fail reboot?

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i forgot saidvsmthing

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thats a huge detail you left out

reboot

see it again

sudo reboot now

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what that rebotv cmd called

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shit's fubar

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god damn man

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just type reboot

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reboot now is always best

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watch dog broke. that what it was

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thats fine

thats normal

i get that on mine every single reboot

sometimes you'll see UFW's firewall rules pass

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it flashin rn

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i know man

give me a second

im trying to help here

so you mean your mouse is flashing like the light on your moue or do you mean the cursor?

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im back

hows is it going

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scroll up

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thats weird

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no its not

if you mean the watchdog thing

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does the login screen appear normal?

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i get that on every bx i use

box*

all ryzen processors

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no, i meant the flashing

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oh, yeah. iit is weird.

it*

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we need to know this

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correct

obviously not

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come on

we're trying to help

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using discord through vr seems hard

where is pixel?

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well he's here i think

he was just talking

8 minutes ago

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he is offline

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thats when he disappeared

i appear offline

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he had online status before

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eh

he spoke with invisible twice

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that man is unpredictable

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😂

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im back

my vr died

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omg

where are using discord? @formal turret

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my laptop

im using a old laptop from my brother

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@ripe atlas he is back

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so im alr now

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good good

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so when i boot in to lynix my screen goes black and my mouse is flashing

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so, when you turn on your pc, does the login screen appear normal or it starts flashing after login?

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yes i think

yes

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okaay

somewhere you should be able to see a selection where it says wayland or x11

you should be using x11

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its fully black and only mouse is flashing

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its not x11 its the other one

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you need to choose x11

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idk

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reboot and select x11

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@formal turret @formal turret append the kernel parameter nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the linux line in grub

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lets try x11 first

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you need x11

xorh

xorg*

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i was away for a while but this is a necessary parameter for nvidia users

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what parameter

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yeah, but only for wayland, we should try x11 first

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oh not

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nvidia_drm.modeset=1

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no

not for this

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it even helps X11

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x11 first

then we try it

if it fails, we ttry it then, it's not necessary all the time

no point in adding stuff that's there just to be there

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okay

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.

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how do i select it

what is it called

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drops head

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in the login screen, there should be somewhere to select

its literally called x11

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ugh

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leme check

wait

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yes go look please

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if its gdm it should look like a gear

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there is only sleep restart or shutdown list users

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maybe there?

the thing is that i dont know what is your login manager so i cant tell where it is

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im using a different version

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maybe in the top left, like that

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done

i changed it

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now login

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to plasma x11

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good

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ok

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does it work now?

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yes

it works

done i think

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wayland gives a lot of problems on nvidia cards, happy to see swiching to x11 works!

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i already said to do this

why didnt you guys just listen to me from the beginning

i said it in chat

said do xorg

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i said it too

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we're the only ones that REALLY helped anyway -_-

lol kidding.

@formal vale edit the post to "(SOLVED) at the beginning please"

no quotes

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thanks

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Yep.

thank nekro as well

we were the only ones helping

@formal vale edit this post name to put (SOLVED) in the beginning of this post [lease

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Ok i was gone for a while
@formal turret remember to append nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to your grub linux line (editable in /etc/default/grub to make permanent then do sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg)
It will provide with a better nvidia experience
And if you suspend your system a lot enable nvidia-suspend nvidia-resume nvidia-resume with sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend nvidia-resume nvidia-hibernate and then make the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power-management.conf and write options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/tmp into it and do sudo mkinitcpio -P to regenerate the initramfs

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[SOLVED] pixel's nvidia misadventures

all info is available in archwiki

read it

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that doesn't always help

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i'm in the official arch irc channel

you kinda gave him too many steps at once

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how do i do this

and when i use my os everything feels like laggy

its not a cpu over load its not ram nothing like that i think my hdd kinda sucks tbh

or my power supply

i had this same isue on windows

i dont really know what causes it but the responce time sucks

like when i boot up my pc sometimes my internet car dose not tern on