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#1 2018-08-28 20:40:55

beyondLIFE
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[SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Hey everyone,
i have been trying to get my nvidia card (GTX 950) to work with proprietary drivers, but it just seems to refuse to do so.
When i have installed those proprietary driver "nvidia" my system seems to get stuck at screen " /dev/sda3 clean..." and with blinking underscore.
So i could not just remove that driver, so i have inserted arch live usb and mounted accordingly all partitions, removed "nvidia"
package and installed "xf86-video-nouveau" and "mesa" packages. Arch now seems to work but i want proprietary driver as everything now seems to be 'slowed down' or 'laggy'.
Here is the dmesg i took while chrooted from live USB:  https://textuploader.com/d2tgb
Here is the lspci and lspci -k : https://textuploader.com/d2tg3

Best regards and thanks in advance!

Last edited by beyondLIFE (2018-08-30 12:26:07)

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#2 2018-08-28 20:52:22

loqs
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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Welcome to the arch linux forums beyondLIFE.  Was the system configured to start X or Wayland on boot?  What does the journal from the boot that failed show?

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#3 2018-08-28 21:35:13

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Thanks,
i seem not to be able to get that journal from boot that failed or i am maybe doing something wrong. If you can direct me i would be grateful. I have tried with jorunalctl -b but seems not to be able to get it.
Here is journalctl -b from chroot i got: https://textuploader.com/d2tp1
Please consider that i am now in working enviorenment but with nouveau driver.
I am not 100% sure and i am ashamed, but i am pretty sure that i am not using Wayland, cause i have installed XORG. But i am not sure how those two are related.
Thanks again!

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#4 2018-08-28 21:50:35

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Now that you are in the working system see if you can find a boot that had the nvidia module loaded.

journalctl -b    #is the current boot
journalctl -b 0  #is the also the current boot
journalctl -b -1 #previous boot
journalctl -b -2 #two boots ago etc

Some display managers start Wayland by default others X.  Is the system using a display manager or set to autologin into X on boot or is it supposed to just give you a console?

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#5 2018-08-28 21:59:16

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

I am using GDM,
here is the log i believe is one 'with' nvidia drivers: https://bpaste.net/show/f5a95a0fa509

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#6 2018-08-28 22:12:07

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

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#7 2018-08-28 22:13:19

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Just, i was unable to switch to another tty.
For the record, same thing happens with KDE Plasma.

Last edited by beyondLIFE (2018-08-28 22:13:58)

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#8 2018-08-28 22:28:48

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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

How is KDE Plasma started?  Did you try configuring GDM to not use Wayland?

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#9 2018-08-28 22:51:44

beyondLIFE
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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Plasma was started by SDDM,
however now when i started X manually, it worked.
Thank you alot for answering and patience.
Now comes the question what caused the problem, i hope you might be able to tell from that position, but i know that is very difficult with so 'weak' informations.
Anyways it is late and i will try to figure myself tomorrow.
Thanks again!

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#10 2018-08-28 23:21:21

loqs
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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

After you have tested configuring GDM to use X and seeing if the issue persists will help diagnose the cause.
As will logs for SDDM and the log for the working manual invocation of X.

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#11 2018-08-29 07:09:31

beyondLIFE
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Re: [SOVLED ]Nvidia Proprietary Driver

Thanks!

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