Nvidia drivers/No DE

Smeejo1

So I got a new computer and installed Solus 4 Budgie. Did all the updates and everything was working fine until I used doflicky to install my Nvidia drivers. Doflicky installs the drivers, both 64bit and 32bit (for steam), then asks me to reboot.

After the reboot I'm stuck on the evil black screen with the blinking white cursor.

I looked up some solutions on these forums and tried suggestions posted in https://discuss.getsol.us/d/1208-black-screen-flashing-white-cursor-top-left-on-live-boot-nvidia-gpu Which involves installing the current drivers via eopkg and restarting lightdm. This did not fix the issue.

I tried suggestions posted in https://discuss.getsol.us/d/2639-black-screen-with-white-cursor-in-left-corner but running sudo nvidia-settings does not do anything.

I've also tried looking for incomplete packages as suggested in https://discuss.getsol.us/d/583-solus-booting-to-black-empty-screen/19 but there do not seem to be any.

Each time I try something and it doesn't work I end up having to use sudo eopkg history to roll back the nvidia driver install to get back into my system. What is it I'm missing?

inxi -F

System:
Host: ***** Kernel: 4.20.16-112.current x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Budgie 10.5.1 Distro: Solus 4.0
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING v: Rev X.0x
serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5007 date: 06/17/2019
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 1886 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1888 2: 1887
3: 2195 4: 1903 5: 2052 6: 1946 7: 2195 8: 1884 9: 2192 10: 2042 11: 2189
12: 1894
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080_60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV117 v: 4.3 Mesa 19.2.1
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.16-112.current
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 04:d4:c4:57:dc:96
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 14.06 GiB (3.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD1 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 453.31 GiB used: 14.06 GiB (3.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.73 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 30 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 255 Uptime: 14m Memory: 15.64 GiB used: 1.43 GiB (9.1%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36

DataDrake

Smeejo1 Running an old kernel isn't helping. You need to be on the latest kernel to work with the latest version of the nvidia driver packages doflicky is installing.

Smeejo1

DataDrake Ok, I rebooted my computer and spammed spacebar. A menu pops up giving me 2 options,

Solus 4 Fortitude
Firmware Interface

Picking Solus 4 Fortitude boots me into Kernel: 4.20.16 and Firmware Interface takes me to bios... How do I switch to the new Kernel? Software Center says the new kernel in installed and I ran sudo eopkg install --reinstall linux-current

Scotty-Trees

Smeejo1 Not sure if maybe you somehow blacklisted the linux-current kernel from updating or not, but if you search the Software Center for linux-current, the version is 5.2.20-130 so I'm honestly not sure how eopkg thinks you're up to date though.

Smeejo1

Scotty-Trees I just have to select the correct kernel at boot from what I understand. The option that's supposed to be there isn't though.

Scotty-Trees

Smeejo1 Run these commands one at a time:

sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 5
sudo clr-boot-manager update

What this will do is when you turn on your computer, it'll display whatever kernels you do have installed and you can select them that way. The 5 just means you have 5 seconds to decide which kernel to use before it loads up the last kernel that you've used. Hope maybe that helps address your issue.

Smeejo1

Scotty-Trees sudo clr-boot-manager update
[FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L126): Cannot determine boot device

Scotty-Trees

Smeejo1 Perhaps having a look at these links may help you out:

Solus Reddit - clr-boot-manager fails to update

https://dev.getsol.us/T5168

Smeejo1

Scotty-Trees Neither of those links actually explain how to do any of what they are talking about.

Smeejo1

Solved the issue.

My boot (/dev/sda1) was not mounted. So I had to manually add /dev/sda1 to /etc/fstab The steps I took were to open terminal and type:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Scroll down to the bottom and add:
/dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 1

Hit CTRL X > yes > enter

From there, in terminal, I had to type:
Sudo mount /dev/sda1

That mounted sda1 to boot. I was then able to do in Terminal:
sudo eopkg install --reinstall linux-current
sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 5
sudo clr-boot-manager update

Rebooted my computer and Finally had the option to select the latest Linux-current Kernel. Updated nvidia drivers via doflicky and it worked as it should.

Scotty-Trees

Smeejo1 Thanks for the detail! That may come in handy in the future if someone else comes across a similar issue, thanks for following up with that information and happy to hear everything is working, great job figuring it out!

kyrios

Smeejo1 clr-boot-manager only mounts the EFI partition when needed and unmount it right after, so it's normal it wasn't mounted.