Hello, I attempted to install the Nvidia drivers through the included tool but it has disabled my solus installation. I'm stuck with a "_" and a blank screen. I've followed guides to access the terminal and I'm sitting at it now, trying to decide which packages to remove and if they'll break my system after reboot. Also, I feel like this could have happened because of the 32 bit game driver but I'm unsure. Is anyone familiar with this issue and should I remove all Nvidia packages or just a couple?

are you installing it via doflicky and did you reboot after a kernel update or full update before installing nvidia drivers?

    Girtablulu so the first time I tried to update, I updated the system with the driver's all at once. That was a mistake, because selecting that previous version in grub resulted in what I'm at now. So, I went back to my newest install where the Nvidia drivers did not appear to be installed and attempted to reinstall via doflicky. After my reboot, I was greeted with the blank screen

      okay revert it again, run a full update via terminal --> reboot --> now you should be able to install nvidia drivers, this is because nvidia drivers are build against the kernel

        Girtablulu I'm a little confused by what you said. If I'm at the terminal now (logged in via terminal not budgie), would I remove all Nvidia packages via eopkg and then run a system update? Or should I go back to the older install listed in grub and start from there?

        Edit: I can include an image of where I'm at if you're confused

          Girtablulu I saw two instances where drivers were installed. One was the very beginning and the system wouldn't let me revert back to just after install. Maybe I was doing it wrong but I was able to revert back to option two (is that what it was called? Idk) which was before the second run of Nvidia installs listed.

          How can I make sure that I'm installing drivers correctly? If I already have them installed, would doflicky cause any issues?

              Olivia you need to do a full update and then reboot before doing anything else on the system

                  Girtablulu so after some tinkering, removing the previous driver install, and updating the system by itself, I still can't successfully install drivers via doflicky. This time I avoided installing the 32 bit game driver but that didn't make any difference; I still ended up at the blank screen with the underscore. I did remove the driver's (again) and am back to square one with the install. Are there any other tools for installing drivers reliably? Is my hardware not supported?

                  Edit: my cpu is an Intel i7-8650U with an Nvidia MX150

                    I have an i7-8550U and also a Nvidia MX150 and everything works fine. So I don't think your hardware is incompatible.
                    I ran a system update with "sudo eopkg up" and then installed the nvidia driver with doflicky. After this I rebooted the system and everything works fine.

                    Have you any logs? (like from x server or display manager)

                    5 months later

                    I actually have the same issue, and have been having it for the last two years or so. I regularly try to install the drivers when I feel bravehearted, but every time I end up in the situation described here with a black screen (and tty available if I Ctrl+Alt+F2). I had to rollback using sudo eopkg history -t nnn to restore the previous Intel-only state.
                    I tried it with linux-current (today), or both linux-current and linux-lts (in the past), on fully updated and freshly rebooted system.
                    Doflicky tried to install nvidia-glx-driver-common, nvidia-glx-driver-32bit and nvidia-glx-driver-current.
                    Does anyone have any idea? It used to work in the past, like 2 or 3 years ago on the same laptop and same Solus installation, the Nvidia GPU was installed and working. I uninstalled it to save battery during trips, but now I would need it again because the CPU is overheating in multi-monitor setup when I use just the Intel chipset.

                     $ inxi -F
System:    Host: xiaomimi-solus Kernel: 5.6.18-155.current x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: i3 4.17.1 Distro: Solus 4.1 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Timi product: TM1604 v: XMAKB3M0P0705 serial: <superuser/root required> 
           Mobo: Timi model: TM1604 v: XMAKB3M0P0705 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Insyde 
           v: XMAKB3M0P0705 date: 08/30/2017 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.4 Wh condition: 37.4/39.3 Wh (95%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           Speed: 3099 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100 3: 3100 4: 3100 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: intel resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           3: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.18-155.current 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: 90:61:ae:f1:f7:52 
           Device-2: D-Link DUB-E100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(rev.C1) [ASIX AX88772] type: USB driver: asix 
           IF: enp0s20f0u4 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 78:32:1b:06:e6:8b 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 727.52 GiB used: 518.09 GiB (71.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLV256HCHP-00000 size: 238.47 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT525MX300SSD4 size: 489.05 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 47.78 GiB used: 35.09 GiB (73.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 
           ID-2: /home size: 182.51 GiB used: 96.84 GiB (53.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.39 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 36 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 261 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.75 GiB used: 1.95 GiB (25.2%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.1.03

                    Did you installed the 32bit packages? Via DoFlicky?
                    I faced this also and installing the 32biy packages solved the problem

                    Yes I installed the 32bit package, but also tried without it.