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Careca1

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Registered: 2022-02-11

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[SOLVED]DMs don't open when booting

Hey, so I recently installed arch with qtile and sddm and for the first three days it worked pretty fine. But then I started to want to play games on steam so I installed linux-zen and nvidia-utils to let me able to play the games and then I rebooted to use the new kernel. But then for some reason, when I booted, sddm didn't show up, it simply says that it is "starting arch" for an eternity. I also tried other DMs (gdm and lightdm) but none worked.I'm not a pro at dealing with these problems so I didn't try too many commands. Hope somebody has any suggestions.

Last edited by Careca1 (2022-02-11 14:44:17)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]DMs don't open when booting

If you are not using the stock kernel, you need to use nvidia-dkms rather than the nvidia package built for the stock kernel:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Custom_kernel

Last edited by Trilby (2022-02-11 04:18:59)

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Careca1

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Registered: 2022-02-11

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Re: [SOLVED]DMs don't open when booting

Thanks,
I did that and it still didn't boot and the reason for it is that I didn't install the linux-zen-headers package. Right after doing so it worked perfectly.
To anyone wondering you install this package by typing sudo pacman -S linux-zen-headers in the terminal.

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED]DMs don't open when booting

Correct. This is all documented in the wiki...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … le_Support

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