Hello,
I am trying to install Garuda on my new SSD for the first time ever. I chose the dragonized version because I really love KDE more than other distros. my problem is that after installing the OS and booting the SSD I get to a black screen (no cursor), from looking around and searching for a solution I come to a conclusion that the problem is the NVIDIA GPU (what a surprise). I do get a tty2 console (as I saw from other similar problems). I tried restarting the "sddm" and it didn't help, I also run the "startx" command and it returned with a cannot connect to a server. and the "startkde" returned with "no such file or directory"
I would really appreciate the help!
My device is a ASUS ROG Strix 15
GPU: GTX 2070 super
CPU: I7-10875H
i completed the installation with the open-source drivers, after that I did a full update and upgrade to the system, used the assistant to install the NVIDIA drives and after that a black screen on the very next reboot. i do get a tty2 prompt tho
Try to switch to the LTS kernel before you switch to the Nvidia drivers and see if you have better luck. If you didn't install the LTS kernel you can add it from Garuda Assistant and switch to it from the grub menu (before login screen).
I indeed followed this thread and dig throughout the forum for a solution that would work for me but except from switching the kernel i didn't get results from other solutions i saw
Every kernel is a little different. The LTS kernel is good, it has a lot of hardware support baked-in. As your hardware ages you will probably start to get more kernel options that work out of the box. Sometimes (especially with Nvidia) you kind of just have to use whatever works!