@linesma I appreciate your help, and I don’t mean to be making this difficult. This is a lot of new tools and circumstances for me, and I would be sinking without help of this forum. In general, is there some best practices for making these posts that will increase the quality in the future?
@ricklinux@manuel Sorry, it seems I neglected to post the results of that command. Here’s the results.
@GeekTea
This process will take a little time so bare with us. We need to go through certain steps and without certain information it makes it difficult. Providing exactly what is asked for will make it easier. If there is anything you don’t understand please ask. Sometimes myself or others require additional assistance also.
Edit: You have hybrid graphics Intel i915 (HD 620) and Nvidia MX250 which takes the 450.xx series drivers. Looks like you have the lts kernels installed. Do you have both kernels installed or just the lts?
> nvidia-installer-check
Your graphics card (id: 1d13) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.
I had run nvidia-installer-dkms at an earlier point in the process, which returned no errors at the time.
I have both kernels installed. I believe had accidentally installed the lts kernel as part of this process, but all my steps after this has been aimed to the lts kernal, i.e. running commands like sudo pacman -S linux-lts-headers. I imagine the LTS kernel is fine?
As for your question about the desktop, I’m unsure. After Xorg boots, it should start up i3-wm. My monitor is usually the dell laptop monitor, but normal use I use HDMI to mirror to my Acer 1920x1080 60Hz monitor. I have no particular reason to use lightdm, its just what got installed with EOS.
I really do appreciate the help. I’m learning, so that’s awesome.
That is correct. I installed EOS with general tools, I3, and nvidia tools. The first thing I’ve done since then is try to install Nvidia drivers (no customization since I didn’t want to wipe the drive and redo it if the nvidia step failed).
Ran it, and reboot. No dice, same black screen. Heres the log from sudo nvidia-installer-dkms &> log
INFO:root:e[92mRemoving /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.log file...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mEndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.8e[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:48 [INFO]: e[92mEndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.8e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mAll logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.loge[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:48 [INFO]: e[92mAll logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer_r.loge[0m
INFO:root:e[92mUpdating Nvidia graphics cards database...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:48 [INFO]: e[92mUpdating Nvidia graphics cards database...e[0m
Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
Database is already up-to-date.
INFO:root:e[92mInstalling nvidia-dkms driver...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:50 [INFO]: e[92mInstalling nvidia-dkms driver...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mRemoving conflicting packages...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:50 [INFO]: e[92mRemoving conflicting packages...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mDownloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:53:56 [INFO]: e[92mDownloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mUnpatching /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:56:11 [INFO]: e[92mUnpatching /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mCreating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...e[0m
2020-10-27 08:56:11 [INFO]: e[92mCreating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...e[0m
INFO:root:e[92mInstallation finished. You need to reboot now!e[0m
2020-10-27 08:56:11 [INFO]: e[92mInstallation finished. You need to reboot now!e[0m
Okay so now the Nvidia is installed properly. It shows nvidia 455.28 driver version. So now i am going to ask for some more assistance from @manuel or @joekamprad as it is installed properly. I’m not as familiar with the i3 window manager.
Ran those commands, after running systemctl start I get taken to that black screen with the blinking cursor. So, I doubt this is an i3 issue, it look like a failure for lightdm to start.
sudo systemctl status lightdm
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-10-27 09:09:41 PDT; 12s ago
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Process: 1072 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1072 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 27 09:09:41 skyedev systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Oct 27 09:09:41 skyedev systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Oct 27 09:09:41 skyedev systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 27 09:09:41 skyedev systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 27 09:09:41 skyedev systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
I do not read all the thread…
So may already done or someone ask already…
if yes it is optimus hybrid system intel+nvidia and nvidia chip is supported by latest nvidia driver, then:
simple have both drivers installed (nvidia and xf86-video-intel)
choose optimus-manager if you want this and install it (if you want to switch)
make sure you have checked bios/efi/firmware settings to be setup as you want it it could have settings to run only nvidia or only intel or disable/enable gpu management at all.