Ok now we’re going to tell your system to force nvidia drivers to load on early boot (this helps to prevent black screens before login screen):
sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES=(piix ide_disk reiserfs)
MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"
You’re only editing that very last line, you want it to look exactly like mine, same as above:
Once you’ve done that…Save the file, ctrl+x, hit Y to save and rebuild the mkinitcpio.conf by running:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
Reboot and (fingers crossed) should be good to go! There may be some additional steps i.e. if you have any screen tearing, but if you don’t notice any issues then you should be good to go for the most part, hopefully!
When you do a complete shutdown and power off, and then turn it back on, you’re saying you’re still getting stuck on a black loading screen with some text saying “Starting version 249.x-arch…” ?
EndeavourOS is billed as an intermediate-user type of distro, it’s not meant to be 100% noob friendly per se, it helps to already have a bit of background in using Linux, but the team does want to help everyone get a working system with useful scripts and programs like the Welcome app and the big useful one is the team have the EndeavourOS wiki ( click here for that ), which covers a lot of issues like the one you have now. Just gotta know exactly what you’re searching for of course. I was (am? ) a noob as well, but with a little experience things start to make more sense over time.
Yeah I’m also still a noob ofc but I will try to improve
I mainly wanted to switch to endeavourOS since I wanted to learn much about the shell which I did and will continue
But sometimes I’m really overwhelmed by the many options you have
And by how much you can break (ofc you won’t do that if you are experienced)
No worries, we sometimes learn through trial and error and making mistakes. Thankfully if you use all the resources at your disposal (this forum, endeavourOS wiki, arch wiki, google searching, etc), you should be able to fix like 99% of most issues, as long as you have the time and patience, anything is possible to fix.
On a side note, do you have the nvidia-hook package?
pacman -Qs nvidia-hook
This command will just say if you have it installed or not, it doesn’t install or remove anything, it’s just a query.
Ok that simply means you don’t currently have nvidia-hook installed. For a quick reference, if it was installed like on my system since I also have nvidia, the command would look like this:
Now at this point, I don’t want to mess up any of the work @ricklinux was doing with you. The steps I’ve given you so far btw can also be found here: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/nvidia/nvidia-optional-enhancements-and-troubleshooting/2021/03/
It goes into a little bit more detail and there’s a few extra steps, but if you can’t even boot, there’s something else going on. I don’t want to disrupt @ricklinux 's work with you at more than the steps I’ve already provided, so I’m going to suggest for the time being wait till he returns shortly since he’s far far more knowledge with what to do next. But I’ll be around to follow along and see how things go as well, so I can learn more too for the next time this issue happens, I’ll know how to assist better. Sorry I could only be of so much help at the moment, but this forum and community is great, they’ll do their best to get you up and running.
Hey listen you helped me so much!
Don’t underestimate yourself
I will probably just wait for him now and maybe setup my laptop in the meanwhile so I don’t have to type on my phone anymore
Also have a great day/evening!
And I can100% agree that this community is awesome and really welcoming and helpful in all situations
Thanks for the kind words, I just try my best with what I know, but I also try to learn more every chance I get to improve myself and to better help others when I can. And yes this community is pretty
OK, this is fine. If you use -Rdd to ignore failing dependencies and “force” removal of the 470xx packages, then you can reinstall the 495xx packages, for example:
) a noob as well, but with a little experience things start to make more sense over time.
