Installing Nvidia drivers gives _ after restarting/trying to switch user

lumey

Hi there! I'm a idiot at Linux. (this is my first distro that actually installed) Anyways, when I try to install the drivers for my graphics card in the "Hardware Drivers" app after I click Restart at the end it just goes right into a infinite _. I don't know a fix. I've seen a post similar to mine on the r/SolusProject reddit:

Girtablulu

How did you install the nvidia driver?

to fix your issue at the moment

press when _ shows up alt + F2 you should get your terminal login with user name and passwort, login your system

be aware your keyboard will be US keyboard layout

now type in sudo eopkg hs and you will see an install/update log - check for the rep version before you installed the nvidia driver

then type in sudo eopkg hs -t $Version after rollback reboot via typing reboot

lumey

Girtablulu I installed it by going into the hardware drivers app on budgie.

lumey

Girtablulu Ok, Did that. WORKED! back into solus without having to have reinstalling it for the 5th time lol

Girtablulu

lumey yea we do have a rollback system 🙂

okay question, did you reboot after you updated (Kernel update inside of it) and before you tried install the nvidia driver?

lumey

Girtablulu i didn't reboot before but after yes.

Girtablulu

yea this was causing the issue, if you install software which relays on the kernel which was updated stuff will go south. So fully update --> reboot --> install nvidia and everything should be fine

lumey

Girtablulu Do you mean like this?

Girtablulu

yes now reboot so any update software gets fully integrated into the system, then you can install nvidia

lumey

Girtablulu dem underscores back. tried rebooting then installing then rebooting again.

Girtablulu

lumey that's weird, roll back as explained above and what driver shows up for installing?

lumey

Girtablulu
Operation #27: takeback
Date: 2019-12-12 17:38

* libva-vdpau-driver-32bit 0.7.4-5-1-x86_64 is removed.
* libva-vdpau-driver 0.7.4-5-1-x86_64 is removed.
* egl-wayland 1.1.3-6-1-x86_64 is removed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-32bit 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is removed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-current 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is removed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-common 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is removed.

Operation #26: install
Date: 2019-12-12 17:36

* libva-vdpau-driver 0.7.4-5-1-x86_64 is installed.
* libva-vdpau-driver-32bit 0.7.4-5-1-x86_64 is installed.
* egl-wayland 1.1.3-6-1-x86_64 is installed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-common 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is installed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-32bit 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is installed.
* nvidia-glx-driver-current 440.36-321-1-x86_64 is installed.

Operation #25: install
Date: 2019-12-12 17:10

Girtablulu

I'm not really sure why this is happening, you did not play around with the xorg file?

lumey

Girtablulu no I did not.

Girtablulu

lumey what nvidia card do you have?

lumey

Girtablulu sorry for taking so long, a gtx 1060.

Girtablulu

lumey mmmh shouldn't cause any issue, with the new sync we reverted back to kernel 5.3 because users reported massive issues with 5.4, one was as you having boot issues to the desktop with nvidia drivers, after updating and rebooting you can try installing nvidia drivers

lumey

Girtablulu noticed those updates and was like : )

lumey

Girtablulu annnd guess what! _ is back