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eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:24 AM

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I installed arch Linux from the arch install strip and then I was having some drivers issues with my gpu btw I have a Asus RTX 3090 and I installed the drivers then rebooted and now it won’t get past the started Hostname Service and I tried to boot into the recovery option and it’s still the same I have no idea how to fix it

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:32 AM

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which drivers did you pick?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:36 AM

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The dkms one

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:36 AM

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but which one? nvidia-dkms or nvidia-open-dkms?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:36 AM

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1st one

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:36 AM

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try the second one

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:37 AM

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I can’t because it won’t even boot it just sits there on the screen I posted

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:37 AM

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press ctrl+alt+f4

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:38 AM

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Okay it’s asking for a login

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:38 AM

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then log in as your user

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:39 AM

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Done then I’m assuming I would try to install the other one from here

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:39 AM

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yes

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:39 AM

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It says target not found

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:40 AM

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i don't know what you typed

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remember to remove the old one first

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:40 AM

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placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:41 AM

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it's dkms

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:41 AM

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placid dew remember to remove the old one first

How would I do that

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:41 AM

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eternal leaf How would I do that

sudo pacman -Rsn nvidia-dkms

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then install the other one

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and possibly sudo mkinitcpio -P but i'm not sure if pacman does that automatically or not

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:43 AM

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Okay it’s installing the open dkms now

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:43 AM

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good

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also you can see on the wiki which driver is right for you

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:44 AM

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Yeah I looked up my gpu and everything

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:44 AM

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good

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:46 AM

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placid dew and possibly `sudo mkinitcpio -P` but i'm not sure if pacman does that automatic...

Both of these are done

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:46 AM

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then reboot

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let's hope that fixes it

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:46 AM

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We shall see

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No it still gets stuck on started hostname service

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:47 AM

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okay that's not good then

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but at least now you have the good drivers

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ctrl + alt + f4 again

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:47 AM

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Done and logged in

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:47 AM

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type this carefully

journalctl -xe | curl -F 'file=@-' https://0x0.st/

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it will give me your journal

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:48 AM

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Okay one sec

simple knoll Jul 28, 2025, 1:51 AM

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Do you have the headers package installed for your kernel? (ex. linux-headers)

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:51 AM

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simple knoll Do you have the headers package installed for your kernel? (ex. `linux-headers`)

I’m not sure

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:52 AM

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pacman -Qs headers

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they should be installed, archinstall installs them

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:53 AM

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Yes I do

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:56 AM

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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | curl -F 'file=@-' https://0x0.st/

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:58 AM

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It filed to open

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:58 AM

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why?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 1:58 AM

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placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 1:59 AM

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you forgot a - after @

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:00 AM

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Ah lol

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:01 AM

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also - what display manager did you pick? sddm?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:01 AM

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Done

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:01 AM

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eternal leaf Done

then give me the link

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:01 AM

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Yes sddm

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https://0x0.st/85kH.txt

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:04 AM

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okay

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i wanna know if you can get any graphics at all

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since you picked sddm, i assume this will be kde plasma?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:05 AM

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Yes

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:05 AM

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then type startplasma-wayland

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:05 AM

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Okay it booted

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:06 AM

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and tell me if it works well - as in, no glitches, freezes, hangs, the ui is smooth and stuff

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:06 AM

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It does not it just freezes

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:06 AM

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what do you see on the screen? the spinning gear?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:07 AM

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Just this

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:07 AM

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and it froze?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:07 AM

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Yes

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:07 AM

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okay that's not a good sign at all

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let me think

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:08 AM

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Is there anyway I can write a iso onto a usb I have plugged in because I still have my usb with the iso on it it just won’t let me boot from there for a fresh install

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:09 AM

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i don't understand - what's currently on your usb and what do you need to do with it?

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:10 AM

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Never mind

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:13 AM

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okay, do this:

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sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
modify the MODULES=() line to:

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

Ctrl + O to save, Ctrl + X to exit
sudo mkinitcpio -P

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this is the only solution i found on the wiki

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it can be caused by the fact that sddm starts earlier than nvidia gets loaded

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:16 AM

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The 2nd one?

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:17 AM

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i don't see any "2nd one"

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just include the nvidia stuff in the modules

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don't skip btrfs

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also, i thinkk you may also need to remove kms from the HOOKS=(...) section down below

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also, do pacman -Qs nvidia-utils and make sure it's installed

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if that doesn't work - i have no clue

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:24 AM

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Okay rebooting

placid dew Jul 28, 2025, 2:34 AM

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placid dew i don't see any "2nd one"

oh well, now I notice it

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the # means it's commented out

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meaning, the lines with # are ignored

eternal leaf Jul 28, 2025, 2:36 AM

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Ahh

solar arch Jul 28, 2025, 4:54 AM

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placid dew and it froze?

thats a bug i used to experience on all distros on all the versions of nvidia drivers it only happened with full screen apps so if you ran anything borderless you can avoid it but this is different it seems

mellow cobalt Jul 28, 2025, 5:16 AM

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eternal leaf I installed arch Linux from the arch install strip and then I was having some dr...

I know how to fix it, install linux-headers and base-devel. then install the nvidia-dkms again, make sure to remove the other package that has been used.

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