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Noob101

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Registered: 2025-03-23

Posts: 3

Screen freeze after login

I'm a complete noob, please go easy on me. I used archinstall installing on my dell laptop. After installing, it freezes on a blank screen each time I put in my password. It's a dell g16 with 13th gen intel and nvidia graphics card. I don't known how to access my journalctl during startup. I have tried virtual console when it's frozen but no response. I have tried reinstalling arch couple times now. Previous times, I could log in but any application I opened would freeze too. Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you.

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 851

Re: Screen freeze after login

I'm a complete noob, I used archinstall

this is the problem , if you really want to use and learn arch you really need to do it the arch way and follow the installation guide, this just sounds like an optimus problem, if you boot off the install media and chroot in and post the full journal to a pastebin service

for example after booting the installer:

lsblk -f
mount /dev/nvme0** /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt
journalctl | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

obviously change nvme0** to where arch is installed, this is found with the lsblk command beforehand.

Noob101

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Registered: 2025-03-23

Posts: 3

Re: Screen freeze after login

http://0x0.st/8jSx.txt (this is the journal before I tried following Nvidia prime section 1.2.1.2 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … r_offload)
http://0x0.st/8jSU.txt (this is the journal after)

sorry for taking so long, I tried manually installing and was stuck getting it to boot because of uuid issue. I can boot and log in now. But the problem still persists. When I first login, everything would seem to be find. Applications are responsive, but after a couple minutes, they would tell me applications are unresponsive, and force quite wouldn't even work.

Last edited by Noob101 (2025-03-24 04:57:45)

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 851

Re: Screen freeze after login

i cant see a whole lot wrong there, you need to install "sof-firmware" for your audio device, only other thing i could see that stands out is this:

gsd-xsettings[2403]: Failed to get current UI scaling factor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Destination does not exist

i dont use wayland or gnome so im not really sure what its about or if its even serious, someone else around here will know...

Noob101

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Registered: 2025-03-23

Posts: 3

Re: Screen freeze after login

Oh ok but thank you for taking the time. I really appreciate it.

Let

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Registered: 2025-12-07

Posts: 1

Re: Screen freeze after login

Struggling with the freeze on login problem it turns out disabling nvidia_drm fixes the problem.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

I created /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia_drm.conf with 

options nvidia_drm modeset=0

and rebooted.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,082

Re: Screen freeze after login

That's not a usable fix for anything. If gnome/mutter picks the wrong GPU, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/- … lti-gpu.md

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