Login Loop

metroidlover97

pomon startx displays a load of garble. And command 5 doesn't do anything? The others seem fine.

This is what's displayed when I enter startx. I apologize for the small image, but it's the only way I could fit it all in there.

By uninstalling the nvidia-glx drivers, I was able to get back to the desktop. I would definitely still want to install the nvidia stuff again though.

pomon

How you installed the drivers? What graphics card? inxi -Gxx. Look

metroidlover97

I used DoFlicky for it, just as that video said. Doesn't work every single time I do it.
inxi -Gxx returns
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau

pomon

Try manually in the terminal. Update the system sudo eopkg up -y. Check eopkg li | grep linux-current-headers. If you don't, install. Install sudo it nvidia-glx-driver-common nvidia-glx-driver-32bit nvidia-glx-driver-current. Possibly still nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases.
If it is a black screen, uninstall the driver in TTY. Then we will think what to do next.

metroidlover97

Sorry, but I still get stuck in the login loop after installing those 4 packages.

pomon

Go to TTY and install nvidia-glx-driver-current. Reboot.

metroidlover97

I did that already...

pomon

Well, I was wrong. Show eopkg li | grep headers and uname -a

metroidlover97

pomon

Maybe try with the driver nvidia-470-glx-driver-current.

metroidlover97

That ... actually worked. Thanks! Guess the 515.xx driver was incompatible.

Staudey

metroidlover97 That is weird, seeing as your GPU is still supported by the new Nvidia driver branch:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/191961/en-us/

Oh well, at least it works now, I guess. (the 515.xx branch has some nice features/improvements though, especially if you want to ever switch to a Wayland desktop)