Hello everyone! I installed Linux Arch on 2006 pc today and when booting it's stucks on /dev/sda2: clean, 245764/19472384 files, 3678433/77879808 blocks, I tryed booting winoth quiet parametr and still the same
#Linux Arch doesn't boot
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Can you boot into live session?
chilly lake
Can you boot into live session?
not much of a live session in arch. just another commandline.
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not much of a live session in arch. just another commandline.
Means just terminal
chilly lake
yes
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That can be helpful
chilly lake
good luck.
ionic atlas
good luck.
Why what happened 
chilly lake
nothing. u can handle this one.
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Oh alright no problem 
ionic atlas
I guess it can be a display issue
ionic atlas
Hello everyone! I installed Linux Arch on 2006 pc today and when booting it's st...
turn on your pc without plug in the Live USB
Press ctrl + alt + F2 or (F3 or F4 etc)
To get into terminal
If it works
Try checking system logs :
journalctl -xe
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_Try checking system logs_ :
journalctl -xe
I noticed 3 errors Failed to read display number from pipe and Could not start Display server on vt 1
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I noticed 3 errors ```Failed to read display number from pipe``` and ```Could no...
And NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPU installed in this system is NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy drivers. Please NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/ object/unix.html for more NVIDIA driver will ignore NVRM: information. The 570.86.16 NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe.
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I noticed 3 errors ```Failed to read display number from pipe``` and ```Could no...
In system logs?
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In system logs?
Yes
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Umm this seems like that your system is unable to start display server
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Is there anyway to fix?
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And ```NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPU installed in this system is
NVRM:...
Your system is having NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Ti GPU installed
Requires NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy drivers
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Is there anyway to fix?
Re installation of correct Nvidia driver probably
Can you try unplugging GPU once?
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Can you try unplugging GPU once?
Like unplugging GPU from motherboard?
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Yup!!!!
To verify if it's related to GPU
Afaik it's cause of driver
Current installed Driver in your system is 570.86.16
Which will ignore your GPU which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti it only works with 390.xx
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To verify if it's related to GPU
I'm sure that everything I get from unplugging GPU is error that pc can't find GPU
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I'm sure that everything I get from unplugging GPU is error that pc can't find G...
Ok let's try reinstalling driver
Are you there bro
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Are you there bro
Were plugging pc back
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Ok let's try reinstalling driver
How
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Does it prompts grub menu?
Yes
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Can you see any line which starts from Linux and in end there's something like splash and quiet
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Ye
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Can you show a pic
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Can you see any line which starts from Linux and in end there's something like s...
Yes
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remove quiet and splash from there
And add
systemd.unit=multi-user.target
At the end of the line
Should look like
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=<your-uuid> rw systemd.unit=multi-user.target
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Done
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Press ctrl x
I mean save
Then reboot
Then we will remove existing Nvidia driver (570.xx)
sudo pacman -Rns nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings
Then to remove remaining stuff
sudo rm -rf /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/modules/*/extramodules/nvidia*
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I mean save
How
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Then to remove remaining stuff
`sudo rm -rf /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
sudo r...
Done
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I removed NVidia stuff
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I removed NVidia stuff
After rebooting?
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Yes
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Alright now
We will reinstall
sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si
Then
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
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`sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ya...
If it's not available already
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`sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ya...
Git doesn't want to install
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What is promoted
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What is promoted
skipping for the remainder of this transaction
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Umm alright
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
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yay: command not found
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sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S base-devel git
Then try
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
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skipping for the remainder of this transaction
Same error
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After sudo pacman -Syu?
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Yes
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Can you do
yay --version
Command not found
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Btw have you logged in through text interface
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Yes
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Ok
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Can you do
pacman -Qs base-devel
pacman -Qs git
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As my user
Yup!
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Can you do
pacman -Qs base-devel
pacman -Qs git
Second command - no output
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The git one?
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Yep
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What's with first
Basic tools to build Arch Linux packages```Ok it's in
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Maybe I don't have internet connection on that pc
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Aredy trying to launch iwctl
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Probably those commands are being scheduled and waiting for internet connection
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Aredy trying to launch iwctl
Didn't worked?
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Didn't worked?
Waiting for IWD to start...
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sudo systemctl status iwd
Check for iwd status
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sudo systemctl status iwd
Check for iwd status
Loaded
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No, just Waiting for IWD to start
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sudo systemctl start iwd
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sudo systemctl start iwd
Run this to start iwd
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Run this to start iwd
It's working now
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Then
sudo systemctl enable iwd "this enable iwd to start at boot"
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It's working now
Cool those commands are working now?
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`sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ya...
Now this
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Then
`sudo systemctl enable iwd` "this enable iwd to start at boot"
But first this
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sudo systemctl status iwd
Let's see is iwd is activated now or not
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`sudo systemctl status iwd`
Let's see is iwd is activated now or not
Yes it is
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Let's see by rebooting system again?
Is internet working
After restarting
Launch iwctl
By typing:
iwctl
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Also this doesn't saves config, it just boot the system with config
Yup that's for temporary
So you are in grub menu again?
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I checked internet connection alredy
Yeah as we did sudo systemctl enable iwd
iwd.service - iNet wireless daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iwd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since...
???
Active
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Yes
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sudo pacman -Syu
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Still the same
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Are there any other network services
sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
sudo systemctl status wpa_supplicant
Commands are too big 
omg
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sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
sudo systemctl status wpa_supplicant
I have Network Manager installed for KDE
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Would you like to use iwd or network manager
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Network Manager
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Disabled
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sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
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Started
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Done
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Have you connected to the internet
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How
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Idk
My system language set as Russian and terminal doesn't supports it
Like it shows white boxes but not Russian symbols
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My system language set as Russian and terminal doesn't supports it
What how
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What
After what step
It shifted system lang to Russian
Let's try giving some vodka to it
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When installing I set my location as Russia because I'm Russian and it seted language automatically I guess
Any way to change language from terminal?
ionic atlas
Alright so it should work then
locale -a
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Or en_UK
🙃
en_UK is wrong ig
have it worked?
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`sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8`
Generating locales...
ru_RU.UTF-8... done
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Done
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Now is it in English?
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`sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8`
Again
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ohh
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Yea
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Cool
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Error: 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt: property is missing.
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Arch Linux error edition
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Arch Linux error edition <:sweatcat:1301984929088933979>
Real
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nmcli device wifi connect <SSID> password <password> --wifi-sec wpa2
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Why lnstalling Linux on 2006 machine is so hard 
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Arch is known for errors afaik 😶
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nmcli device wifi connect <SSID> password <password> --wifi-sec wpa2
Invalid extra argument '--wifi-sec'
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nmcli dev wifi list
Check what security type your network is WPAx
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Arch is known for errors afaik 😶
Ii tryed two distros on this pc before Arch and both of them have problems when installing NVidia driver
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Ii tryed two distros on this pc before Arch and both of them have problems when ...
Umm so have you tried any Os in it which worked?
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Fedora - noveau error, Debian - broken kernel
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Umm so have you tried any Os in it which worked?
If Windows XP counts then yes
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It's off from 2006
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It's off from 2006
How I know that something more new in this pc is GPU, it from 2011
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nmcli dev wifi list
Check what security type your network is WPAx
It's doesn't accepts --wifi-sec in general, security type is right
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Yes
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nmcli device wifi connect "<SSID>" password "<password>" 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt wpa-psk
try this way more structured way
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If Windows XP counts then yes
windows xp worked in it ?
if i,am not wrong windows xp is still being used in russia right?
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windows xp worked in it ?
if i,am not wrong windows xp is still being used in r...
Idk, maybe someone still uses it but mostly we use Windows 10
or 11
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Idk, maybe someone still uses it but mostly we use Windows 10
alright!
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nmcli device wifi connect "<SSID>" password "<password>" 802-11-wireless-securit...
invalid extra argument again
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manually setting up
nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlan0 ssid "<SSID>" wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk wifi-sec.psk "<password>"
Replace wlan0 with your actual wireless interface (nmcli device status can show this
then activate it by nmcli con up "<SSID>"
then check it's status by nmcli device status
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then activate it by `nmcli con up "<SSID>"`
Error: Connection activation failed: Secrets were required, but not provided
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then activate it by `nmcli con up "<SSID>"`
on running this?
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on running this?
Yep
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umm if network is already listed there lets modify its password
then try again
nmcli connection modify "<SSID>" wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk wifi-sec.psk "<password>"
then nmcli connection up "<SSID>"
if didn't worked restart Network manager sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
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if didn't worked restart Network manager `sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager`
Still the same
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if still not working
journalctl -xe | grep NetworkManager
and sharee the error
are you using WPA3
or WPA2
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and sharee the error
dosen't see any error
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are you using WPA3
and
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WPA2
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have you restarted nm
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have you restarted nm
Yep
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if still error try deleting saved connection and reconnecting it agin nmcli connection delete "<SSID>" then nmcli device wifi connect "<SSID>" password "<password>"
if not working try this way
nmcli device wifi connect "<SSID>"
then it gonna ask you for password
then check if connection is saved correctly or not nmcli connection show "<SSID>"
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It didn't asked but printed "Device 'wlan0' succesfuly activated"
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Yep it works
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what is being prompted
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pacman started working!!
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64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=20.4 ms "something like this"
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64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=20.4 ms "something like this"
yep
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pacman started working!!
nomore skippings?
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nomore skippings?
Yep
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sudo pacman -S git
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yayyyyyy
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I hope driver instalation won't break the kernel
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git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
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I hope driver instalation won't break the kernel
yup! fingers cross
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`git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git`
`cd yay`
`makepkg -si`
run these step by step
@abstract rivet working?
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<@1089101746422435870> working?
I'm waiting for git to install
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yep
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`git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git`
`cd yay`
`makepkg -si`
Could not resolve host: aur.archlinux.org
@ionic atlas you there?
ionic atlas
yup
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Could not resolve host: aur.archlinux.org
fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git/': Could not resolve host: aur.archlinux.org
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I got a urgent work can you wait for 5-10 minutes
So sorry
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Yep
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Are you there?
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hi
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sorry for being late
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```fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git/': Could not resol...
I try to git clone and got this
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Yep
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Yes
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CloudFlare, I use it with AmneziaWG/VPN
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sudo nmcli connection modify "<SSID>" ipv4.dns "1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1"
sudo nmcli connection up "<SSID>"
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Or maybe it's just disconnected
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ping -c 4 google.com
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Yup, wifi just disconected
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Or maybe it's just disconnected
lol
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Yup, wifi just disconected
try reconnecting
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Done, git cloned
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Already waiting for install yay
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Of course
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@abstract rivet what's up with install still slow speed?
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It's installed!
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after
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
Shouldn't it be legacy drivers?
@ionic atlas
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after
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
I got error:
-> No AUR package found for lib32-zlib
-> No AUR package found for lib32-libglvnd
-> could not find all required packages: lib32-libglvnd
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Shouldn't it be legacy drivers?
390.xx is a old driver so it should be legacy
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I got error:
-> No AUR package found for lib32-zlib
-> No AUR package found for ...
What about this?
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sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
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Opened
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#[multilib] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Uncomment both by removing #
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Done
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sudo pacman -Syu
Then:
sudo pacman -S lib32-libglvnd lib32-zlib
Have you done!
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Have any error
??
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Waiting for package database synchronising
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5 KiB/s
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Bro we should change mirrors
Let's check for Russia
cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | grep -A 1 "Server"
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Then
sudo pacman-mirrors --country Russia
sudo pacman -Syyu
Now you having a Russian mirror which will give you better internet connection
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pacman-mirrors: command not found
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database file for 'multilib' dosen't exist
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database file for 'multilib' dosen't exist
After which command?
Then
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
Again uncomment those two
Ctrl + X
y
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After which command?
after sudo pacman -S reflector
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after sudo pacman -S reflector
Those changes didn't got saved I guess
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it got saved
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Yep
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sudo pacman -Syy
Then
sudo pacman -Syu
Then
sudo pacman -S lib32-libglvnd lib32-zlib
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Then try `sudo pacman -S reflector`
What about this?
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What about this?
Try running it once again!
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database file for 'multilib' dosen't exist
It gives that error
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sudo rm -rf /var/lib/pacman/sync/* sudo pacman -Syyu
Then
Reboot sudo reboot
Then
Check if multilib is available or not
pacman -Sl multilib
Check for errors
sudo pacman -Syyu
Then
sudo pacman -S reflector
Then
sudo reflector --country Russia --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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Then
`sudo reflector --country Russia --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacma...
For top 10 Russian fastest mirrors
.
And for top global fastest mirrors
sudo reflector --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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.
And for top global fastest mirrors
`sudo reflector --latest 10 --sort rate ...
Do global one if can be more fast probably
Then
sudo pacman -Syyu
And reboot
You can check mirrors and their speed by
rankmirrors /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Now pacman will use fastest mirror
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@abstract rivet lol tired i guess
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I’m going to sleep so gonna continue trying to revive the OS tomorrow
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I’m back
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Downloaded driver
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I tried to launch Half-Life 1 from steam and you know what? It's giving like ~4 fps
Like it's a game from 1998
Why it's lagging
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Downloaded driver
By the steps that we discussed above or any other method?
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I tried to launch Half-Life 1 from steam and you know what? It's giving like ~4 ...
Probably lack of memory? Have you created swap?
Or
It can be the issue with configurations or graphics settings
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Probably lack of memory? Have you created swap?
Or
It can be the issue with c...
I have swap enabled
On Windows XP it's were working fine
8GB swap file
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Are you using proton? Which comes with steam?
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I'm using Proton Hotfix
Isn't Half-life 1 could be launched winoth using the proton?
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@ionic atlas
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Isn't Half-life 1 could be launched winoth using the proton?
Probably no
Try upgrading steam?
And any other related driver?
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It's updated
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Probably lack of memory? Have you created swap?
Or
It can be the issue with c...
What about graphics settings?
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What about graphics settings?
Yup!
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Is your GPU being used for graphics processing?
I'm sure about that
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Try upgrading mesa opengl
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How
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How
First do
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
This gonna promt you the version of openGL that you have
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4.5, mesa 24.3.4-arch1.1
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umm
Check for it update?
Take a look in settings if there any option like
Hardware acceleration
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If the issue in title is solved, let this post be, and make a new post for different issues please.
If not, continue.
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Yup that can be more helpful
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Created
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Okay, I saw today that Graphical Processor in about System (KDE app) says llvmpipe when it's should say name of the GPU installed in PC. Maybe drivers isn't installed correctly or idk
Linux Arch doesn't boot
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nvidia-smi
In terminal
If it says command not found it means drivers aren't installed correctly
ubuntu-drivers devices
This will list you all recommended and available drivers from your graphics card
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390
Then reboot
sudo reboot
Now check the driver again
nvidia-smi
Or
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
In last:
Try switching to Xorg display server
hope this will help you
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`nvidia-smi`
In terminal
i already solved this
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added four lines in xorg.conf
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Now what fps are you getting <@1089101746422435870>
at hl 1 now normal fps
HL 2 dosen't launch for some reason
maybe vulkan problems
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at hl 1 now normal fps
Cool