Hello, since the last update, I have been unable to start my laptop. Pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 also has no effect. The screen stays black. It is an HP laptop from 2018 with an Nvidia GPU and an Intel CPU. I think the GPU is causing the problem? How could I figure that out? I was thinking of creating a …

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I added ‘systemd.unit=multi-user.target’ and also removed ‘quiet’, but there is still nothing on my screen. I will try other things. Honest question: I escaped from the constant issues I had with Windows 11 and switched to Linux. Would Arch or CachyOS be a good choice for a laptop with hybrid grap…

Cachy is fine for hybrid graphics. The guide also includes steps to ‘chroot’ in using an ISO if you cannot gain control from the existing system itself.

Hello again, two weeks later I was successful to finally got my HP Pavilion laptop working again! :folded_hands: Feedback desired: :folded_hands: I’m still not entirely sure what the crucial step was, but I’d like to share my approach with you in case anyone else needs help with an NVIDIA/CachyO…

[image] Animus: Feedback desired: :folded_hands: Oh. Sorry. :dotted_line_face: [image] Animus: I’m still not entirely sure what the crucial step was, but I’d like to share my approach with you in case anyone else needs help with an NVIDIA/CachyOS black screen. Either the switch of gra…

Thank you for the life-saver. The update from nvidia-dkms 580.119.02-1 to -2 obviously didn’t work, leaving both cachyOS and cachyOS-LTS stranded in emergency mode. Since the network could not be brought up either, I used your approach with chroot. This time the dkms package did install properly.

The laptop is dead after last update

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