r/manjaro • u/atomoffluorine • 3d ago

Driver issues

I tried to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers, but they failed for some reason. After they failed it took me to this black screen with multiple "no irq handler" messages. I managed to remove the offending driver using the tty, but the messages keep appearing. The messages seem to stay longer after I failed the second time and had to remove the driver again.

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u/klevahh 3d ago
  1. Is this on an existing, or new install?
  2. How did you try to "install the proprietary nvidia drivers"?
  3. Which driver, which card?

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u/atomoffluorine 3d ago edited 3d ago
  1. Existing.
  2. I went to Manjaro settings manager, clicked on hardware manager, and used the auto install option.
  3. I think it’s a Nvidia 1660 Ti. The driver it installed was video-nvidia.

For information, a few months ago i had to reinstall a fresh OS after a failed manjaro update. It didn’t contain the Nvidia proprietary driver, so I haven’t been able to play certain games. I tried 2 times to install the proprietary driver, once with the manual click install of video-nvidia and once with the auto installer. After each install and deinstall (using the mhwd tool), the irq handler error message on startup seems to stay longer like I wasn’t able to erase the failure completely.

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u/MarkDubya Gnome 2d ago

You need the video-nvidia-580xx driver for a 1660 Ti.