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SpacetimeBull

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Registered: 2021-02-13

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Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

I tried updating my drivers to nvidia instead of the default nouveau Xserver drivers with:
sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia-dkms(I am using Linux Zen kernel) everything installed then I tried rebooting and it says all the usual stuff then instead of doing to sddm it hangs at “Started Hostname Service”. I can access rescue terminal with ctrl alt f2. When I try typing sddm is says “Initiating, Starting,” and hangs at “Logind interface found” I try that with sudo and it just hangs at a blinking cursor(still in terminal) I tried restarting and it presents the same message. How can I get it to boot into KDE & SDDM with nvidia drivers working properly? I am running base Arch with SDDM and KDE plasma(no distro). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by SpacetimeBull (2021-04-14 20:16:46)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

Did you install linux-zen-headers so that the module can be built? If you did and it's still not working look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting to set them up to load early.

SpacetimeBull

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Registered: 2021-02-13

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

Yes, I installed Linux-xen-headers and added the stuff to modprobe.conf AND boot parameters and it still shows “Started Hostname Service” I don’t know why it is saying this!

SpacetimeBull

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

I did systemctl —failed and it says “sddm.service loaded failed failed Simple Desktop Display Manager”
I did sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb and it says nvidia-gpu 0000:07:00.3 i2c timeout error e0000000, ucsi_cgg 3-8008: i2c_transfer failed -110 and ucsi_cgg_init failed - -110.
I did sudo vim /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it says at the last line “Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia/nvidia_drv.so”
I did nvidia-smi and it says it gas failed because it couldn’t communicate with the nvidia driver

V1del

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

Post a full sudo journalctl -b the symptoms sound like the nvidia kernel module is not loaded, which actual graphics card is this. The nvidia timeout errors can normally be ignored.

Last edited by V1del (2021-04-08 23:49:52)

SpacetimeBull

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

GTX 1660
How would you like me to post sudo journalctl -b, it is extremely long and it takes me 2 minutes to record every section. Is there a shorter command that would yield more focused logs?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

See the tip box from pastebin to pipe the commands output to a pastebin from the console then post the generated link.

SpacetimeBull

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

Forgot to install DKMS You may close this

V1del

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Re: Installing nvidia drivers: boot hangs at Started Hostname [SOLVED]

Please edit the title in the first post to mark it as [SOLVED]