[SOLVED] [KDE Plasma] Black screen when trying to boot into Wayland desktop - NVIDIA

[polar isle]

just installed arch for the first time using the script and upon logging into wayland, im met with a black screen and my cursor. (see attached)

i looked around on tbe internet and the wiki and added nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the kernel, ran grub-mkconfig and rebooted, then ran sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset to confirm, which returned “Y”.

despite all of this, i still cannot boot into wayland. any ideas what went wrong here?

[keen needle]

logout and use x11

... solved

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[polar isle]

but the latest nvidia drivers support wayland

i was just using wayland on fedora

[keen needle]

@polar isle try the open source drivers

[polar isle]

i will in a second. do the proprietary 555 drivers not work well with wayland on arch or something?

[keen needle]

depends on the gpu/cpu you use

[polar isle]

well i use an rtx 4070 super and a ryzen 5 5600x and the proprietary drivers worked perfectly fine for wayland on fedora

[keen needle]

[polar isle]

ur not really helping me at all here lol, how do i un-solve this thread

[subtle barn]

it hasn't been marked as solved, that was just a note regarding how to do so

[polar isle]

oh ok

[subtle barn]

Nvidia support is still pretty spotty

[keen needle]

@polar isle what kernel are you using?

[polar isle]

zen kernel

from the script

[keen needle]

what script?

[polar isle]

archinstall

[keen needle]

is nvidia-dmks installed?

[polar isle]

i believe nvidia-dkms is part of the installed packages yeah

[keen needle]

pacman -Q nvidia-dkms

[keen needle]

no need for sudo when querying packages to see if it's installed

[polar isle]

my mistake

but yea, it is installed

[keen needle]

how old is your *pu?

[polar isle]

cpu?

[keen needle]

or gpu

[subtle barn]

They said 5600x and 4070 super so probably less than 3 years and less than a year respectively

[polar isle]

the cpu is a few years old, the gpu is a few months old — but like i said, wayland on fedora worked flawlessly

[keen needle]

pacman -S git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-beta.git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta-dkms

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-utils-beta

cd nvidia-beta

makepkg -si

cd ..

cd nvidia-beta-dkms

makepkg -si

cd ..

cd nvidia-utils-beta

makepkg -si

[keen needle]

@polar isle install the utils first

[polar isle]

am i stupid whats goin on here

[keen needle]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay

cd yay

makepkg -si

yay -S nvidia-beta nvidia-beta-dkms nvidia-utils-beta

[polar isle]

ye im installing that rn

give me a sec

[subtle barn]

https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-utils-beta.git is the correct url for nvidia-utils-beta

[keen needle]

then reboot after it installs

@polar isle

[polar isle]

sorry, was waiting for it to install

black screen still

[keen needle]

@polar isle try the non zen kernel/lts kernel

[polar isle]

i was stupid and unchecked that because i think i thought it would conflict with the zen kernel

so let me reinstall it rq

i assume if i just do yay linux-git it’ll install right?

[keen needle]

pacman -S linux linux -lts

pacman -S nvidia-lts

[polar isle]

give me a moment to install it

[polar isle]

reinstalled arch with the base linux kernel, put nvidia_drm.modeset=1 in grub and ran grub-mkconfig, rebooted, but its still not working

[keen needle]

try lts

[polar isle]

doesnt work still. i ran that same cat command from earlier and this time if returned N, so im gonna look at the wiki rq and see how to fix that

ok for some reason my DE is now working @keen needle

reinstalling, putting the proper lines in grub, and enabling modeset in nvidia.conf did the trick

[SOLVED] [KDE Plasma] Black screen when trying to boot into Wayland desktop - NVIDIA

[keen needle]

reinstalling arch or the nvidia packages?