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mankurt

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Registered: 2015-10-10

Posts: 15

[Solved] Nvidia install breaks boot

Hi all,

I recently bought a new Intel i7-8700K machine with the Nvidia quadro P2000 GPU.
I immediately installed archlinux (booting with EFI). Everything worked great until, while already in a gnome desktop environment, I finally took the last step to install the nvidia drivers. By going through the archwiki, I gathered that I should simply install the nvidia package, which has nvidia-utils as a dependency already. I also added the pacman hook as recommened in the archwiki to run mkinitcpio every time the package gets changed. To my suprise, after rebooting I got immediately stuck at boot, it seems that "graphics do not load" if you excuse my poor phrasing, I am a newb.

There are two messages appearing on the screen before I get stuck, though they were there before so I assume they are not relevant. These are "Can't request region for resource" and "kvm disabled by bios". I did not find anything in journalctl that seemed to be of interest. I tried arch-chroot by booting with the installation usb and then removing the nvidia package, and that of course brings me back to be able to run gnome, but if I delete the nvidia packages and try to reinstall the same thing happens again, so it's not a broken package. One thing that I think is weird, is that even though 'lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"' yields the correct graphics card parameters, it seems that my system thinks that the card's code is NV136 (I can see that in gnome settings), and NV136 seems to be a GTX when looking in the nouveau list, don't know if that's relevant.

Any idea would ne appreciated, as well as advice regarding what info to produce and put here to make this question more detailed.

Thanks!

Last edited by mankurt (2018-10-05 07:59:07)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: [Solved] Nvidia install breaks boot

How is gnome started?  If GDM have you read GDM#Failure_to_use_proprietary_NVIDIA_driver?

mankurt

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Registered: 2015-10-10

Posts: 15

Re: [Solved] Nvidia install breaks boot

Actually, no, I didn't try that. I now disabled wayland by uncommenting the '#WaylandEnable=false' line in '/etc/gdm/custom.conf' and everything works great.
Thanks loqs!