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charlotte544

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Registered: 2025-04-07

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Graphics driver crashing without `acpi=off` (Nvidia)

I am in the process of setting up a fresh install, and have been trying to set up Wayland and the proprietary Nvidia drivers (as I have a Pascal GPU, specifically GP106/GTX1060). After following the entirety of the Nvidia wiki page, and the Hyprland Nvidia guide, I am unable to boot with graphics intact. Specifically:

• Booting with the default grub config causes a freeze after:

  Loading initial ramdisk...

• Booting with the "quiet" option removed causes a freeze after:

  :: running early hook [udev]
  Starting systemd-udevd version 257.5-1-arch
  [     3.359373]

• Booting with `acpi=off` added in GRUB allows the system to boot normally.

• However, `iommu=off` and `nomodeset` have no effect.

Note that in the case of these hangs, the system still boots and can be logged into via SSH. Just the graphics freezes at the mentioned point.
I am able to verify when logged in via SSH that the modeset=1 and fbdev=1 options for nvidia_drm have been applied correctly.
I am using kernel 6.13.8, however these issues also exist when using LTS kernel 6.12.21. I also have nvidia and nvidia-utils 570.133.07.

Is there any way to make the system boot correctly without acpi=off? I'm concerned that this option will have unwanted side-effects.
Thanks!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Graphics driver crashing without `acpi=off` (Nvidia)

Note that in the case of these hangs, the system still boots and can be logged into via SSH.

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also try to only boot the multi-user.target (2nd link below) and add "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" to the kernel parameters (since *only* this way it'll block the simpledrm device)

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