Hello everyone, I’ve been using endeavourOS for a bit more than 5 months now, it’s been a blast, and the forum has had some of the most helpful solutions I’ve seen of my 5 years using arch based linux distributions, sadly, I’m a bit of an overconfidant tinkerer, and I found a way to brick it after it went smoothly for so long.
For context, I have AMD integrated graphics and an NVIDIA 3060ti (hate it, I want to get a an amd GPU, need money first) and for once a game refused to use the nvidia card, I first tried doing it through the BIOS by disabling the integrated graphics, but the NVIDIA card displayed only in a low resolution, thought it was a driver issue so I switched from nvidia open dkms to nouveau, and thus started the issue, my system would start booting, but it’d then display a black screen with an underscore in the corner, ctrl alt f1 showed the log, and it stopped after a different point each reboot
- reached target graphical interface
- starting power management daemon
-and another one related to color profiles but which I didn’t note down
most discussions hint that it is a driver install issue, I arch-chrooted (unecessary as I have access to tty but didn’t think of it) and reinstalled nvidia open dkms, and it fixed it, but then I was a bit buzzed after a night out, and decided to install a tool from the AUR to help instead of learning to use bumblebee or prime, the package was prime-switcher, used it to set my gpu to Performance (what I assumed was the nvidia gpu), and the boot issue came back up, I tty’d and used the --uninstall option for prime switcher which is supposed to undo all actions, but nothing changed, I uninstalled it.
I tried many fixes, updated the nvidia drivers, changed from nvidia-open-dkms to nvidia-open, to nouveau, pacman -Syu, yay -Syu, used nvidia-inst which installed nvidia-open-dkms and removed a few packages (bumblebee, bumblebeed, nouveau, vulkan-nouveau, lib32-vulkan-nouveau, lib32-nvidia-utils and a few others), (thought I) reinstalled all packages including AUR ones by doing yay -Sy $(pacman -Qq), but now that I think about it I didn’t specify the --overwrite option, so it might have only reinstalled aur packages, I remember seeing many “package already installed” notices but I didn’t think about it since I was busy, and lastly, I tried disabling the nvidia GPU in BIOS, but that led to the exact same result of hanging at one of the previously mentioned points, oh yes and I ran the eos-nvidia-fix a few times.
It is quite stumping, but then again I am a tinkerer, not an actual power user.
I don’t really know what other information to provide, I do have tty access but no graphical environment to work with, I also have an artix install and install media in case I need to arch-chroot.
I hope we can find a solution together, else I’ll have to reinstall endeavourOS from scratch and migrate all my stuff to it, isn’t that the casual arch experience ey ?
May yall have an excellent day, cheers !