ok, so my Netrunner was working well as usual with no issues at all.
After switching my PC on yesterday, the system loads up, shows the login screen (as usual) and then I enter the password — then nothing, the screen literally just freezes. I then used Ctrl+Alt+F2 to login, it worked, just, now I only have command line - which is great, but I want to look at pictures.
I’m not sure what the actual problem is, but I suspect the login screen itself as logging into any other window managers give the same result. :huh:
Edit- OH; I’m sure it has nothing to do with anything at all, but - I triple boot my PC with Netrunner, Linux Mint and Windows 7. Iv’e been doing this for a long time, so I doubt this is the issue, but it might be helpful to solve the problem with.
What GPU do you have, and which drivers are you running?
Are you sharing a home, or any other partition, with Linux Mint?
Can you please post the contents of your xorg log file?
~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
Ok, nothing… switching to the nouveau drivers doesn’t do anything except a blinking underscore.
why doesn’t it detect a screen though? - I am going to try an HDMI-input screen, maybe it’ll do something diffrent.
the auto install on mhwd didn’t start because it was already installed - but I removed it and reinstalled it and switched back and forth between the nvidia and the nouveau drivers, every time the x.org log file says the same thing. - no screen
That IS strange, installing the nvidia driver with mhwd should automatically blacklist the nouveau drivers.
We might need to take another approach.
First, you don’t happen to have a hybrid graphics system do you?
I’ve tried doing what you suggested, the only problem is that I don’t know enough about the Nvidia settings to know what’s really going on with them… I have however, gone to the deep depths of self pity and installed the vesa Display package… Still to no avail.
Bump.
I think the problem might be X itself, though I don’t know exactly how all why.
I don’t understand how the login screen pops up so majestically… But after I enter the password nothing happens.
Ok also tried various screen setups after reinstalling the nvidia drivers again… Still nothing. Nothing more than the login screen and nothing after a correct password entry.
OK, the log in screen is running on X so that isn’t the issue. More than likely the issue is with Kwin and/or the compositor.
try deleting ~/.config/kwinrc from a terminal prior to logging in via sddm (GUI).
Ok, so I now also removed the last programs I installed - then reinstalled the video-nvidia package, still not. I also tried some solutions offered by other forums but because manjaro based distros work a little diffrent they don’t offer a solution for this case.