Gray screen when I boot into gnome on xorg

General system Newbie
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Yeah the second one is you Nvidia gpu. See your Wayland session is using the nouveau driver and not the nvidia driver, so if you tried to run games they wouldn’t work. Can you als run the lsmod | grep -E "nvidia|nouveau" while in your wayland session and then share the output?

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It doesn’t output anything

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You marked the topic as solved?

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No. I did it on accident. I unmarked it

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Yea. I just tried and games don’t work. I am trying to switch to the proprietary drivers right now. I have to find a guide though

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Can you share the output of the following?
grep nvidia /var/log/pacman.log | grep upgraded

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$ grep nvidia /var/log/pacman.log | grep upgraded
[2023-07-20T17:27:33+0300] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (535.54.03-1 -> 535.86.05-2)
[2023-07-20T17:27:33+0300] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils (535.54.03-2 -> 535.86.05-1)
[2023-07-20T17:27:35+0300] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-dkms (535.54.03-1 -> 535.86.05-2)
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And also when the last time before you upgraded it was working, so the last working date?

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Yesterday around 20:30

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And the times you upgraded match with what you shared in your pacman.log?

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Yea.
This is everything that pacman.log shows for yesterday

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Was your Nvidia driver working yesterday around that time?

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Yes! It stopped working 2023.07.27

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I would try downgrading all the three upgraded packages nvidia-utils, lib32-nvidia-utils and nvidia-dkms to the old version before you upgraded, looking at that output that is “535.54.03-1” You can do that using the “downgrade” command, so sudo downgrade nvidia-dkms

sudo downgrade nvidia-utils
sudo downgrade lib32-nvidia-utils
sudo downgrade nvidia-dkms

Then select version “535.54.03-1” for all three packages and then reboot to see if it works again. I don’t know though if the “downgrade” command takes multiple arguments Looking at the man I think it does so you can then just try it like this.
sudo downgrade nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-dkms

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System stopped working yesterday (or today?), but nvidia packages were upgraded 8 days ago.

One idea is to downgrade mesa and see it that does anything.

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Not everyone installs updates every day, according to the earlier output those nvidia packages were updated yesterday.

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For me this looks like 8 days ago…

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lol I think I need glasses you are right.

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I tried downgrading both what you said and mesa and still nothing. Now its a black screen when I try to get into xorg. This is the xorg log file: https://pastebin.com/cfcNkF5t

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Do you have kernel parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1 added?