Solus install with NVIDIA

linobi

Hi,
I haven't been able to properly install a fresh Solus Plasma 4.3, think probably because of my GPU.
My system is a Ryzen 1700 (no iGPU) with a gtx 1080.
I've swept the forums (here, reddit, etc.) and found out that my problem seems somewhat typical: basically, the live USB won't load the graphical interface, it goes to a black screen. I could not make it work with neither nomodeset, nor noeveau.nodemodeset=0;
however! on some rare occasions (can't say when or why), the install media managed to load the graphical system (without me doing anything) and in one of those occasions I managed to install Solus.
Naturally, the fresh installed system won't load the graphical system. I can, however, log into terminal with ctrl-alt-f2; and from there I updated the system with "sudo eopkg up" and then installed binary nvidia driver with "sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current". Yet, after rebooting, I'm still at a blinking cursor.
I feel I'm really close to solve it, however I ran out of ideas or suggestions in forums...
Does anyone else has something else I could try?
Some additional info:

I use grub (I configured my bios to Legacy mode)
Tested Fedora Deepin and Debian (10) KDE, and both worked without problem. On Debian I even managed to install nvidia proprietary drivers.
Before this fresh install. I had a Budgie Solus on this very system working flawlessly. I think I installed it about a couple years ago, so it probably started as a Solus 4.0 version, but it upgraded normally, with nvidia driver and everything. Unfortunately I cannot attempt to download such older ISO and attempt to start from there, because Solus Plasma only began after 4.1 I think 🙁

Any help is appreciated!

njakes

Can you still get to another TTY after rebooting and sitting at the blinking cursor? You could try blacklisting nouveau. Also you can remove quiet from the boot parameters to see whats actually happening while that cursor is blinking.

linobi

Yes, I still have access to the terminals after rebooting. The only thing that changed is that now it kinda looks like at VGA mode (after the fresh install, before installing proprietary driver, I had native screen resolution at TTY).
I remove quiet as suggested. The system hangs at the following:

[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface
            Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes...
[ OK ] Finished Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.

And then just the blinking cursor.
As I mentioned, I can still go to TTY, so I could try to get any log info in case that helps

mlsw

I had 2080 and same thing happened to me. I solve it by installing those packages on TTY;
nvidia-glx-driver-common
nvidia-glx-driver-current
nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases
I hope it will work for you too.

njakes

You could try to either blacklist nouveau or uninstall xorg-driver-video-nouveau. Others might disagree with the second option.