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solon

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Registered: 2023-07-12

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Cannot start Arch without nomodeset

Hey,

I'm pretty new to Arch Linux so sorry if I forget files/infos which would be usefull.

I just installed my first Arch installation with help from the wiki and all went smoothly.
After my install I went to the NVIDIA Wiki Page and installed the nvidia package. After that I removed kms from the Array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf File.
I also installed xorg, picom, nitrogen, qtile and xorg-xinit because I want to use qtile. Qtile on itself with Xorg works just fine. My problem just is, that I cannot start my Arch Linux Distro without first adding nomodeset to the Kernel Parameters.

Does anyone have a Clue why it could be?

Best regards
solon

Last edited by solon (2023-07-12 10:44:29)

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 868

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start Arch without nomodeset

firstly did you run mkinitcpio after removing the kms hook ?

do you have an integrated gpu ?
you might need to blacklist it:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … grated_GPU

ive been fixing and testing nvidia gpus lately and my test machine is an amd a10 apu and it will not boot correctly with the nvidia drivers installed without blacklisting the amd gpu, nouveau however works just fine.

solon

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Registered: 2023-07-12

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start Arch without nomodeset

Hey I ran mkinitcpio -P as the wiki suggested after installing the nvidia package. As far as I don't have an integrated Graphics Card

lspci | grep "VGA" 

at least only returns

 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD103 [GeForce RTX 4080] (rev a1) 

Last edited by solon (2023-07-12 10:24:43)

solon

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Registered: 2023-07-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start Arch without nomodeset

So I was actually able to solve my problem. I installed neofetch and neofetch actually figured out I have an internal GPU.
So I used the tips from @jonno2002 and disabled it and now it works like a charm.

Thanks

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 868

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start Arch without nomodeset

glad to hear you fixed it.
just a note... dont grep output unless you really need to, you may miss out on important info, if you had run 'lspci' and read through all of the output you would have seen the intel gpu listed.