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Top gek. Was referring to myself :smirk:

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1744

Whoopise daisy

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You were (and still are) being toxic though.

Iā€™m rocking Nvidia on my linux boxes because I need the compute performance.

Works fine for me.

I think @anon79053375 was hoping to get my attention, but Iā€™m in and out of meetings all day today. I can give you a hand later today if youā€™re still interested.

EDIT: After a quick look. Iā€™ve got a feeling this has something to do with Wayland. Check if GDM is trying to launch as Wayland and if it is, fall it back to xorg. Nvidia isnā€™t ready for Wayland quite yet.

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1747

Sadly, I canā€™t get anything past that crazy screen flicker :cry:

Canā€™t switch to a clean console via Control Alt F1 either.

Trying some bios/UEFI changes and a different installation medium.

1748

What distro. Iā€™m thinking Debian, but wanna be sure.

1749

Debian Buster, yeah.

1750

On your bootloader is there a rescue option?

If not, try appending rescue/enable=true to your kernel command line.

Sauce: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch08s07.html.en

That should drop you into single user mode.

Meeting starting. bout to share screen. Need to drop off forums.

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Yeah, I got that far. Removed the Nvidia drivers and got to a black screen :confounded:

Tried with nomodeset and itā€™s similar to above, but it flickers that something refresh had reached 0.

Meh, just loaded it up:

pstore: crypto_comp_decompress failed

1752

I think the installer blacklists nouveau, does it revert that on uninstall?

1753

Shit. Thatā€™s a great pointā€¦ They give that little popup when you install Nvidia now (at least on Deb they do).

Need to figure that out first, probably.

1754

Wasnā€™t there a big nvidia update recently though? On wayland?

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I donā€™t know. All I know is that nvidia and wayland are about as cozy as that one time there was a porcupine in my bed.

not fun

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1756

yea ubuntu rolled back default back to xorg because of this and I can only assume many other reason in the 18.04 LTS release

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1757

try booting with nomodeset

EDIT: NVM. you already tried it

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I was able to save /home and /opt, which is what really matters.

I like the new look thoughā€¦

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@SgtAwesomesauce My rage is quelled, my belly full, my coffee mugā€¦ caffeinated?

All is well. Enjoy your meetings :grin:

Will keep a diary of changes and updates and if another hit is the result of an Nvidia update, then I will sacrifice to the Aremis Gods and use my RX 580ā€¦

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Back on Solus, I see!

How are they doing? I havenā€™t used it in a good year.

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Doesnā€™t like 144hz and G-Sync. Took some work, but itā€™s alright now.

Still on edge (the behavior, not the browser), hopefully this weekend Iā€™ll be giggling about ever having soiled my pants over this.

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Haha, yeah. I donā€™t use gsync, so Iā€™m not really able to speak to it.

Glad things are going well for ya though.

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1763

Is there something you need from an unstable dist like Debian 10?

Ubuntu LTS comes with tested nvidia drivers an will certainly be more stable. Plus updates wonā€™t take you back to the stone age.
I use 18.04 with gnome-session on top. No problems.

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