Sure you can do that. But normally it’s just sudo pacman -Syu But it’s okay do both.
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Okay, doing that now…it’s taking a little time.
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Let me know when it’s done but don’t reboot or anything.
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Okay, I won’t try anything on my own…heh I won’t reboot basically.
Is it installing updates? Wow it’s slow?
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sometimes it’s 3.mbs sometimes it’s like 30kbs when updating…it’s my internet. i restarted it sometiems that helps
Okay all done…I didn’t reboot
Okay… well make a change but honestly I’m not counting on it working. But well see.
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Go to this line and uncomment it and change to true.
#logind-check-graphical=false
It should look like this after with no space at the beginning
logind-check-graphical=true
Then ctrl + o and enter to save
Then ctrl + x to exit
okay I did it… deleted the # and changed false to true.
You saved it and closed it hopefully?
Now normally you unmount what ever is mounted with the umount command with the path to the device. We will just use exit and i think it should unmount everything and return to the prompt.
Then type systemctl reboot and well see if it’s a dud!
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Sorry…black screen again. I exited and systemctl reboot… it took me to the grub menu but again black screen…
edit: I also saved it and exited. ctl+o enter then ctl-x…
Okay well there’s only one thing left to try but you would have to chroot back into it again. That would be installing the optimus-manager but I’m not sure it works with nouveau so i would also install the nvidia-dkms. If that doesn’t work then we give up on it for now and you can decide what you want to do.
Edit: All in all it’s not a lost cause because even though we don’t get it working you have learned much along the way.
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Okay, chrooting back into the system. Mounting everything again and arch-chroot /mnt?
Yeah you are right, I did learn a lot of stuff and I learned where I can read up on Linux stuff. I also appreciate how much time you are taking helping me rick and joe. I might have to read up more about it, btw I am currently mounting and arch-chroot right now.
Alright I have arch-chroot /mnt. Should I update everything again?
edit: when I did not have this problem I think nvidia-dkms was what helped me use optimus-manager.
When you are ready install the nvidia-dkms
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms
Then we will install
yay -S optimus-manager
Then install
yay -S optimus-manager-qt
Reboot and you may have to chroot into it again to do one last thing to check this
systemctl status optimus-manager
Then if it’s not running
sudo systemctl enable --now optimus-manager
Then reboot again. If this doesn’t work then I’m out of suggestions as i am not an expert on this either.
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Alright, when I tried to run yay it said that I am running yay as root, and aborting…should I exit?
edit: also I think someone named Shodan needed the same help. Maybe he’ll have more luck?
Did you install the nvidia-dkms. Yes yay won’t run as root. So i’m not sure when chrooted how to do this. Like i say I’m not an expert in all things Linux.
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Yeah, I installed nvidia-dkms. Ah okay. I might just wait for another kernel update maybe they will fix it in the next update? What do you think?
Lets do one more thing. I keep forgetting its already in root so you shouldn’t need sudo
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
add to MODULES=
MODULES= i915 nvidia
ctrl + o then enter to save
ctrl + x to exit
Then run
mkinitcpio -P
Then exit and reboot
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