removed nomodest from linux line - rmembered it was not necessary last week for the proprietary drivers.
After running grub2-mkconfig yada yada rebooted and was not surprised to be still dumped to the command line.
From this command line I read the /var/log/X11. whatever it is log and discovered that the nvidia module(s) are not being loaded.
This is right down near the bottom of the file.
I also ran another command - not given in full here as I am back in front of a working other distro - but involves lspci with a switch and grep searching for 03 and A2- something like that.
Anyway the command reports that the VGA controller is 03 nvidia (again this is not accurate reporting of the actual output but enough to get the drift) and the last line indicated the module was nouveau. So, report of the driver for nvidia is accurate but kernel module is nouveau. What? Are they fighting and nobody is winning?
So my nvidia drivers haven’ taken so to speak.
Might it be an idea to get rid of them and see if nouveau kicks in?
I’d rather not be rid of them but the problem is frustrating.
First I could see the graphical login (lightdm by the way) and now I can’t get back there at all.
Sure there’s more important things in life,
hugh