[SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

f4rm0r · 2015-03-06 00:04:22

Hi!
I have just made a clean install this afternoon and I really can not get the drivers from nvidia in the official rep to work. After booting it just gives me blackscreen.
What I have tried:
1. Blacklisted nouveau.
2. Doublechecked mkinitcpio.conf for nouveao under "MODULES" section.
3. Rebuilt initramfs by doing

 mkinitcpio -p linux

4. i tried with a "nomodeset" by entering it in grub.
5. Last I tried to remove nouveau by doing

pacman -Ss nouevau
pacman -R mesa
pacman -Rc mesa (here I double checked the packages and nothing really vital for a full boot of a non-graphical interface (TTY1) is gone)

After Pressing enter from grub I can not see anythin, except from some text that flashes by, Something about checking /dev/sda6 for any errors... Except from that, nothing. Just a black screen.
I am writing this from my phone right now, please understand if I am doing any spelling errors (too lazy to chroot ehen in my bed and PC turned off for the night )

Last edited by f4rm0r (2015-03-06 22:30:15)

jasonwryan · 2015-03-06 00:10:10

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … new_driver

f4rm0r · 2015-03-06 09:24:12

jasonwryan wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … new_driver

I tried that, it sort of worked, except I had to blacklist intel drivers for my comp. After i blacklisted those, I did not really need to do anything else.

install i915 /usr/bin/false
install intel_agp /usr/bin/false
install viafb /usr/bin/false
blacklist nouveau

and that is how my blacklist.conf looks like in /etc/modprobe.d directory.

anyway, thank you for your help, it really helped!

Now I just need to figure out how to get X working... (it just ends with me getting a blackscreen... well, time to troubleshoot and try my force with google-fu )

jasonwryan · 2015-03-06 19:02:34

So you have one of those dual GPU machines? Then you need to read the Bumblebee or Optimus pages on the wiki.

And mentioning that in your intial post would have helped: See How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.

f4rm0r · 2015-03-06 22:28:58

jasonwryan wrote:

So you have one of those dual GPU machines? Then you need to read the Bumblebee or Optimus pages on the wiki.
And mentioning that in your intial post would have helped: See How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.

I never really tried the intel gpu, nor did I knew that my mb had that compability to actually run with that, since I can not even change to only use the display connection from my cpu :0

Besides, I never really will use the built-in gpu on my proc unless my graphics card crashes, and if that happens, I can just create a chroot and read-on about bumblebee and such

I am right now writing this from my Desktop
I have some minor issues with my KDE environment, the text being so small I can barely read it inside of applications.... except from that I have used "Settings" to change it inside the KDE environment :b
So I can live with it, unless it happens inside games aswell

Anyway, I just did not knew about it, otherwise I would have read 'bout it and tried to fix it before i came here
I know how it is when ya dont get enough info about a problem like "This program won't work, why?" (I am the PC wizard amongst my friends, so I know ya should try everything, use google, and most of all, do not panic, it can and will be fixed :3

But ty anyway for the suggestion Jason, appreciate it!

will mark this thread as solved now

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#1 2015-03-06 00:04:22

[SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

#2 2015-03-06 00:10:10

Re: [SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

#3 2015-03-06 09:24:12

Re: [SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

#4 2015-03-06 19:02:34

Re: [SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

#5 2015-03-06 22:28:58

Re: [SOLVED]black screen after installing nvidia driver from official repo

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