I have an old laptop (Lenovo Y70-70) on which I wanted to install artix, but i've encountered a visual glitch on login that makes it unusable.
First I tried with a KDE Plasma image, which got the glitch the moment SDDM started, after that I tried with xfce, which worked fine, installed properly, but upon update and reboot, a similar glitch happens, but only after entering credentials for an x11 session (wayland session just kicks me back to login).
The visual glitch looks either like a starry sky with blue and pink dots, or pink/black barcodes, if that even says anything. Anyone know what's going on?
What kind of GPU does this laptop have exactly, some NVIDIA GTX card?
Asking because in general nvidia has some specific demands to work correctly.
artist
Yeah, it has a GTX 860M. The demands must be recent because the install images are both from august '24, and xfce works fine until it's updated, but KDE doesn't work at all (however I remember the '23 KDE iso worked).
Wayland requirements for Nvidia are described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Basic_support
In case the problem persists then provide details about the installed related packages, setup, etc.
artist
"fbdev is specifically a hard requirement on Linux 6.11 and later, but it is currently unclear whether this is intended behavior or a bug"
This was it, thanks! Also explains the recency of the problem