Nvidia install advice

Currently you are booting on the open source nouveau driver.

Could you run

nvidia-installer-dkms -t

Edit: Post the output after

[user@user-fx503vd ~]$ nvidia-installer-dkms -t
bash: nvidia-installer-dkms: command not found

What desktop did you install? You’ll have to install this also.

sudo pacman -S nvidia-installer-dkms

Gnome DE

[user@user-fx503vd ~]$ nvidia-installer-dkms -t
2020-10-10 14:53:59 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.8
2020-10-10 14:53:59 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
2020-10-10 14:53:59 [INFO]: Running the installer in testing mode...
2020-10-10 14:53:59 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
2020-10-10 14:53:59 [INFO]: nvidia-installer-update-db --tmpdb
Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
Adding NVIDIA graphics card ids to a temporary local database.
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: Installing nvidia-dkms driver...
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: Removing conflicting packages...
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait as this may take a few minutes...
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: pacman -Sqy --noconfirm --noprogressbar nvidia-dkms libvdpau nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-libvdpau
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: Creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...
2020-10-10 14:54:03 [INFO]: Installation finished. Nothing has been modified as testing mode was ON.

Okay go ahead and install the nvidia-dkms

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms

Edit: Then reboot after

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Ok so know getting black screen after the splash screen.
Edit: typing this on mobile

That shouldn’t have happened. It ran the test fine. What desktop is it?
Edit: Sorry i didn’t see that on your last post… Gnome!

Gnome yes.
In the past I’ve edited the kernel parameters at this stage but can’t recall how!

In what way? Gnome is one of the desktop i have the least experience with and it uses wayland also. Are you able to boot up and switch to the tty with Ctrl Alt F2? Log in as root.

Ok logged in on tty

This is where i may need some other advice from my colleagues as i am not sure what direction to go?

I think the parameter I added was modesetting.nouveau=0
This gave me the desktop so I could set up prime.

You could try it i suppose. Do you know how to do that from here?

Edit I haven’t run into this issue and i just helped install optimus-manager on two and they worked perfectly.

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I need to add it first not sure yet how to do this on EOS.

You can try editing the default grub.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Add the line between the quotes “quiet splash”
to save ctrl+o+enter and to quit ctrl+x

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

I’m not so sure this will work.

No probs at all, thanks for your help.
I’ll get it going eventually and will enjoy doing it.
I have to do other things now but will carry on later.
Back later

Make a blacklist .
Create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/name and have it contain

blacklist nouveau

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@treeeasy
I’m not sure if the module for nouveau is trying to load as well as the nvidia causing the black screen? So either trying blacklisting it or the kernel parameter to see.

Also could be the other way around?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Black_screen_on_systems_with_Intel_integrated_GPU

if any nvidia driver is installed it should blacklist nouveau automatic:

The nvidia package contains a file which blacklists the nouveau module, so rebooting is necessary.

If that is the case then with hybrid graphics is it the Intel Module and Nvidia colliding?