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Hey all, new to Linux so bear with me here.

I was on plasma wayland and I updated my Nvidia drivers to version 550.163.01 on my 3050 (confirmed after running the 'nvidia-smi' command in konsole) the other day, and I can only boot into the plasma x11 desktop environment. Whenever I try to to log into plasma wayland, the screen will go black for a second and then automatically return me to log in screen.

After running uname -r, my kernel version is 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64

The system runs okay on x11, but some programs don't work as they should, and the whole system seems a little sluggish. Any ideas to get back into wayland?

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[–] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

After a quick search, I found the journalctl command. I ran that and the output is below. Let me know if there is another place to see logs

edit those were logs since I installed the OS. How to filter?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I see no output pasted, but you probably need to run something like sudo dmesg | grep -i nvidia to find the issue.

My guess is that the kernel modules build failed, and the Nouveau driver can't load.

[–] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I pasted text but realized it was from several days ago, and there was thousands of lines from then.

I wasn’t sure how to narrow down the results from more recently or just from last boot