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pyrole

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Registered: 2022-07-11

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[SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

So I tried installing the appropriate nvidia driver on my arch and things went south : (
Now my lightdm won't start and also I think many of my kernel modules aren't also loading.

sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia

When all failed I followed this tutorial (8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOjOd3wIPu8

Please help me fix this I can't even boot into my OS.
Thanks

Last edited by pyrole (2022-07-15 22:55:09)

pyrole

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Registered: 2022-07-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

Also I followed this guide too:
https://howto.lintel.in/install-nvidia-arch-linux/

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

Now my lightdm won't start and also I think many of my kernel modules aren't also loading.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

When all failed I followed this tutorial (8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOjOd3wIPu8

Also I followed this guide too:
https://howto.lintel.in/install-nvidia-arch-linux/

We don't support random guides on these forums as they are usually incorrect and out of date.
If you want help here you need to post any commands that you ran and any error messages verbatim.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

Please help me fix this I can't even boot into my OS.

You most likely will be able to boot "nomodeset" and probably even the multi-user.target (2nd link below)
At that point I'd take a look at the system journal and xorg log.

If you absolutely cannot boot the installed system this way, you can chroot into it from eg. the installation iso.
At that point I'd take a look at the system journal and xorg log.

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pyrole

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Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

Please help me fix this I can't even boot into my OS.

You most likely will be able to boot "nomodeset" and probably even the multi-user.target (2nd link below)
At that point I'd take a look at the system journal and xorg log.

If you absolutely cannot boot the installed system this way, you can chroot into it from eg. the installation iso.
At that point I'd take a look at the system journal and xorg log.

Did you post any links as I can't see them?
Also I have no idea how to boot nomodeset and what that even means

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Messed up my nvidia driver installation.

There're 4 links in my signature.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … odesetting

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