New nVidia driver does not allow logging in to desktop

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@oldrocker0909
Your video card is an RTX 2060 which is supported by the latest Nvidia driver. If you are game to try this then i will write it out. First of all run the installer in test mode and see if gets any errors. This will not make any changes or install the drivers. It is just a test simulation.

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -t

If there are no errors then you can go ahead and install the Nvidia drivers but do not reboot. We will add the enhancements first.

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms

After installing the Nvidia drivers and when it is completely finished use nano to edit these files.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Add this to the default grub command line after quiet.

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

To save the file
ctrl + o then enter

To exit nano
ctrl + x

Then update grub

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now force early load KMS

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Add to MODULES=

MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"

To save the file
ctrl + o then enter

To exit nano
ctrl + x

Then rebuild the modules with

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Add enhancements for screen tearing

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Make sure the file has all of this in it.

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Nvidia Card"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "nvidia"
        Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
        Option          "TripleBuffer"                  "on"
        Option          "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol"      "off"
EndSection

To save the file
ctrl + o then enter

To exit nano
ctrl + x

Install the nvidia-hook package

sudo pacman -S nvidia-hook

Then reboot

Edit: I’m suggesting this since you already have the drivers uninstalled and running on nouveau. Well see if it works.

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