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gururise

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Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 33

Cannot Login to Gnome or Plasma with nvidia

I just re-installed archlinux due to this problem thinking it would fix itself; however, it has not.  So now I have a fresh installation of arch linux with Kernel 4.11.2 and nvidia driver 381.22

I can get to the GDM login screen, but if I pick gnome or plasma and login, it just returns me to the GDM login screen after a while.  I've tried both gnome-wayland and gnome-xorg to no avail.  Strangely, if I remove nvidia driver and use noveau, I am able to log in and use gnome-shell.  I've tried using the linux-lts kernel with the nvidia binary driver, and still have the same problem.  Any suggestions?  I'm using a Geforce 750ti

Last edited by gururise (2017-05-24 05:34:56)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,056

Re: Cannot Login to Gnome or Plasma with nvidia

I just re-installed archlinux due to this problem thinking it would fix itself

No, that only works for Windows. Actual OS act deterministically ... :-P

Configure GDM to use Xorg and try to log into plasma or gnome on xorg. If that still fails, please provide your xorg log

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#General <- gdm now stores the xorg log in the journal

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