HP Pavilion 17-f030sw Notebook PC Unuseble with rock

[grafi]

Hello,

• OpenMandriva Lx version:
  rock5

• Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
  kde slim

• Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
  Dissapearing Desktop elements all except wallpaper
  Elements of desktop or desktop reappearing at random.
  If I manage to start in example software repository selector everything’s
  fall apart totaly have no chance to see logs if i manage to do this i will put them here

• Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

Intel Core i5 1700MHz, 4GB RAM, dysk 1TB ssd sata, gpu GeForce 840M

[richp (rich)]

I’ve been been having problems with an nvidia 810m card you may just need the proprietary drivers. My problem was related to sddm so i started plasma using startx in order to install them. You could try that but not sure your problem is with sddm so you may need to enable the non-free repo and install nvidia from a tty and im not sure how to do that.

[richp (rich)]

I found a post explaining how to enable a repo you could try this from a tty before loging in
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled rock-x86_64-non-free
dnf search nvidia (try to find the driver you need)
these are the packages installed for my setup

lib64nvidia-egl-wayland1.x86_64                    1.1.17-1                  @rolling-x86_64           
nvidia.x86_64                                      565.77-2                  @rolling-x86_64-non-free  
nvidia-32bit.x86_64                                565.77-2                  @rolling-x86_64-non-free  
nvidia-firmware.noarch                             20241110-1                @rolling-x86_64           
nvidia-kmod-common.noarch                          565.77-2                  @rolling-x86_64-non-free  
nvidia-kmod-desktop.x86_64                         565.77-2_6.12.6_1         @rolling-x86_64-non-free  
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                             565.77-2                  @rolling-x86_64-non-free  
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                         565.77-2                  @rolling-x86_64-non-free

i dout you will need the wayland package it may not even be in the rock repos.

[grafi]

ok ill try
My laptop freezes blinks hangs faster than i can type

[richp (rich)]

Do you have the problems even before logging in?
Try booting to console from grub

@ben79

A pretty standard way in OMLx to start the desktop if the system appears to boot but stops at login screen or does not load the desktop. Like for example “boots to black screen” or “boots to black screen with >something<”.

1. At Grub2 Menu go to Advanced Options>Console Mode that should boot to a login prompt
2. login with your user name

[grafi]

alredy done that thx
Me beeing debian idiot and someone who thiks dnf is wierd. Instead of do just that, ive done ctrl alt f3. then i start to search for how to drop to console with systemd which is this I preassume
sudo systemctl start multi-user.target ← used systemd targets ages ago
then i think wait at grub i have drop down menu ← brain not working today
Thanks to @richp it works now
Nvidia equals Evil

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

Maybe this helps?

@grafi

Nvidia equals Evil

Yes

This may get to bug report time.

Or this may be an issue with nvidia hw combined with sddm login manager, or nvidia combined with systemd. If it is sddm you should be able to login with:

1. At Grub2 Menu go to Advanced Options>Console Mode that should boot to a login prompt
2. Login with your user name
3. Type startx or startplasma-x11 or if using Wayland startplasma-wayland

If that does not work in Rock there are nvidia (545.29.06) and nvidia-legacy (470.223…02). Not sure which your hardware might want but my guess is nvidia-legacy. Installing just one or the other of those should pull in all dependencies needed. So to install these do steps 1 & 2 above and after logging in:

sudo dnf in nvidia-legacy

I am guessing that is the correct package for your hardware. I would be a good idea to check here to be sure that the 470 driver is correct for your hardware. Edit:I am also guessing that these packages do in fact pull in all dependencies, if they don’t we can figure that out,

And yet another alternative is to find the correct nVidia proprietary driver for your hardware and use their .run package. They have instructions for that.

I am trying to help but I do not have nVidia hardware and am not the most knowledgeable about their drivers.

Finally you could ask nVidia for your money back. nVidia market value today is more than the GDP of the country I live in. Edit: (Like maybe 25 - 30 times more)

[grafi]

That whats do the trick I put together few advice’s in to one working solution
Among others there are fragment of your post and link to the full text of it at the end of mine post

BTW You have said

@ben79

If that does not work in Rock

Im on rock it shoud work for old M800 nvidia series.
It work for my freaking M840 in that old hp of mine

My main rig have AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M]
And a shit tone of ram 64GB
Everything works like charm
If I would know better before that even slight video-editing for YT eats cpu and ram like crazy I would buy ryzen 9 and even more ram. And i would not even bother with mid range Graphic card.
Would by chippest card ever

If you fressh Install OM and have something Like nvidia 810 840M or other stone age nvidia gpu. Read this

Your GUI get carazy? hangs, blinks, freezes, drops in to usless cosole, drops dead come back alive, and drops ded again over and over. Do this At Grub2 Menu go to Advanced Options>Console Mode that should boot to a login prompt login with your user name login to the system Only bold text repo is mandatory sudo dnf config-manager --enable rock-x86_64-non-free rock-updates-x86_64-non-free sudo dnf config-manager --enable rock-x86_64-restricted rock-updates-x86_64-restricted sudo dnf che…