EndeavourOS & Arch Live USBs fail to boot

General system EndeavourOS installation
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KDE Plasma. I use it on my Lenovo Legion 7 (the 2022 AMD Advantage edition, so an AMD Ryzen CPU & an AMD Radeon dGPU) and Kubuntu was just super janky on this KDE no matter if I chose X11 or Wayland. And yes, that was with the proprietary Nvidia drivers installed!

KDE Plasma works the best for the way I work. I do like customizing my desktop and I prefer a traditional experience, and since all of the DEs on EndeavourOS are by default vanilla and are the latest and greatest (or can be in the case of XFCE and the i3 WM), I went for something Arch-based with KDE Plasma (Manjaro was instantly out because it’s as much Arch as Ubuntu is Debian; not really the same thing, packages are held back and screwed around, and the constant breakages with the AUR because of the held back packages). EndeavourOS was the best fit, not just because it was very close to “vanilla Arch” but also because of the wonderful former Antergos community continued here.

Thank you so much for all your help! :smile:

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And Ill definitely run

When I’m done.

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I’ll wait as I’m really interested in the result and I’m glad you chose plasma as that is what i use myself.

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Heh, great minds think alike!

It’s just finished, just doing a reboot.

Edit: Trying nomodeset, without it, systemd hung at boot and no tty worked.

Edit 2: Stuck at hostname service starting, but now going into the tty. Running inxi gave me https://0x0.st/oIG7.txt

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Do you have it set in the UEFI Bios to only use Nvidia card? I assume you are only plugged into the Nvidia anyway as the onboard amd graphics only works on the hdmi or display port port coming from the motherboard.

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I think so. Should I try going through the AMD iGPU?

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Well if you do I would power down and turn off before changing. Onboard graphics would have to be set in UEFI also. Not sure what settings it has. Mine has auto or integrated only or dedicated i think. Not sure why it’s not booting since it installed?

Edit: Did you install a whole bunch of other packages. I would have just done the install and then worry about other packages after. Then you don’t have to worry about it being something other than the install that’s the problem. :man_shrugging:

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The iGPU did it. Even with the other packages. It’s the Nvidia GPU doing this.

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Okay for now then please give us the link for this.

inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog

can you also post the output of this

inxi -Ga
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https://0x0.st/oIDH.txt

 Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD102 [GeForce RTX 4090] vendor: ZOTAC driver: N/A
    alternate: nouveau non-free: 520.xx+ status: current (as of 2022-10)
    arch: Lovelace code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022-23+ pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2684 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Raphael driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: DP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 6b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e
    class-ID: 0300 temp: 38.0 C
  Device-3: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-3:2
    chip-ID: 046d:085e class-ID: 0300 serial: 58326257
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x571mm (40.00x22.48")
    s-diag: 1165mm (45.88")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Acer XB273K
    serial: #ASPQuwzDRRHd built: 2018 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 163 gamma: 1.2
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (gfx1036
    LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.48 6.0.8-arch1-1) direct render: Yes
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Can you put code tags around the output?

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I thought I did.

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I can do it for you if you like?

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Oh, okay, sure. I don’t know which it is… :sweat_smile:

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So from the output it’s running on the amdgpu. It doesn’t show any drivers loaded for the Nvidia. I’m not sure if that is only because of the setting in UEFI Bios to turn on iGPU. I see the latest driver out now is the one that was Beta before. You can actually install it from the AUR. Not sure if you want to try that and then switch back to the Nvidia which you would need to change the connection also?

Edit: See here:

 Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Acer XB273K
    serial: #ASPQuwzDRRHd built: 2018 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 163 gamma: 1.2
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (gfx1036
    LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.48 6.0.8-arch1-1) direct render: Yes
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Nvidia is not showing as loaded here but as i say it could be because of the Bios setting.

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD102 [GeForce RTX 4090] vendor: ZOTAC driver: N/A
    alternate: nouveau non-free: 520.xx+ status: current (as of 2022-10)
    arch: Lovelace code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022-23+ pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2684 class-ID: 0300
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If you want to try the beta drivers they are in the AUR.

yay -S nvidia-beta

Screenshot_20221117_200439

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There is also the dkms version. This is better if you are using more than one kernel.

yay -S nvidia-beta-dkms

This driver version should be out soon because they are out on the Nvida site but they probably have to go through Arch testing repo first before you’ll get the update. If you install the AUR version you would have to remove them at some point to install the regular drivers from the normal repo after.

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Do I install it now without using the card?

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You said you can’t get to a TTY? So you could try it here and see. I would use the dkms version.

Edit: Just run the command to install with yay and press enter for each question.

Edit2: If it installs and then i would reboot first. Then shut down and switch to Nvidia and boot into Bios and change settings.

Edit3: It’s either going to work or still give problems? :man_shrugging: