Maybe some sort of DKMS issue? Hard to tell without the "other" side of the logs. Check dmesg, usual syslogs, X, wm logs...etc. I'm not sure I remember seeing that Nvidia had their own logs for the driver on startup, just building.
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I installed the nvidia-beta drivers (Arch) and tested out Starfield. All is good. Then next time I try to startx, I get X failed to start etc.
Did you reboot after changing to the beta driver? If you did not you were still using the previously installed nvidia driver, unless you manually reloaded the nvidia kernel modules via rmmod and modprobe (I'd discourage doing this though, rebooting is way less error prone)
Yes, definitely rebooted. I just reinstalled the betas, so I can try get more logs.
[ 1711.740] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and
Maybe try this then? Kernel log can be read via
$sudo dmesg
or
$journalctl -k
I'd recommend journalctl, best to also append -b to only get the kernel logs for the current boot
For easier navigation enter a / and input nvidia, this will search your journal. Press n to go to the next result and shift + n to go to the previous one
Sorry for double commenting but you could also try this instead of the aur nvidia-beta package
And I'd generally recommed using -dkms versions of the nvidia driver
Installing the DKMS drivers fixed it!
Thanks!
You're welcome
Have fun playing Starfield :)