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tobbe

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 7

Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

Hello,

My problem with the drivers occurs using a completely fresh install with nothing on the system except base, base-devel and then the driver. No gui or anything.

First attempt I installed the nvidia driver and the dependencies according to the instructions iN the wiki. After rebooting I initially have a lower resolution at start of boot but almost immediately the screen goes black and nothing happens. The display is on and doesnt post any error messages about no signal but remains black indefinitely.

I followed all ts steps found here;

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

without any result.

However, I wasn't sure how run mkinitcpio when chrooting from USB. To try this I did a fresh install of arch. Installed nvidia added the module and then rebooted the system.

I can get the syst back to a functional state from uninstalling nvidia.

I get the exact same result when using the nouveau driver.

I can get kde-plasma up and running with the mesa library.

The card worked  flawlessly on a.Windows machine. Worked well with nvidia, not with nouveau, on debian 7, and up until a few days ago, passable on debian 8. The problem on debian 8 was a missing splash screen, just black, and a long load time, however it is currently displaying the same behaviour as arch.

It seems like a waste of a good graphics card nlto not get it working and I don't wanna go back to windows.

I'm hoping somebody here can help me fix it, troubleshoot it or at least perhaps point me in the direction to someone who can.

Regards, tobias

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

Do you need the Intel microcode? (A forum search will turn up more info.)

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Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

Check

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

tobbe

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 7

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

No Xorg.0.log generated. The problem occurred while i was still running on the console.
I tried to find information while chrooted but could only find the faillog and some stuff in journal/, none of it human readable
I also checked for boot messages which dmesg and journalctl, but one was empty and the other was from the usb boot.

I'm gonna try updating the micro-code later today and see if it works. Thanks for the replies.

tobbe

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 7

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

After updating the microcode the nouveau drivers are working perfectly. Also, there are improvements with the nvidia driver. The system boots and i can see whats going on but it gets stuck after Reached target Graphical Interface and nothing happens.
I've checked the Xorg logs and the nvidia driver seems to load just fine but then there is a segmetation fault way later.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,167

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

I've checked the Xorg logs

please post them.

Try booting into multi-user (console) and run startx manually (see Xinitrc in wiki).
post the xorg log of that also.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

tobbe

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 7

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

Apologies for not posting any logs, they can be found bellow

So it seems that i was presumptive when I wrote that I got stuck after Reached target Graphical Interface, it sometimes takes an other step and shows "Reached target Network"

Further, its just tty1 that gets stuck, I can use the other vconsoles just fine. I can even start and run kde plasma using startx. All this without booting to multiuser mode

About the boot sequence; it starts of a bit strange by taking a lot of time setting up dhcpcd. Specifically it says a start job is running on eno1 for about 10 sec.
Then it says reached target Multi-User System and the Graphical Interface and sometimes the Network

Log from nonworking start: http://pastie.org/private/o7ntuz3xecjimontxxmxa
Log for working start: http://pastie.org/private/o7ntuz3xecjimontxxmxa

Im not exactly sure how to start sddm from vconsole so i haven't tried that.
My .xinitrc is simply the following line:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde
Regards

Last edited by tobbe (2015-08-13 07:56:08)

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Can not boot with any drivers for nvidia Geforce gtx 580

sudo systemctl start sddm

and to make it permanent

sudo systemctl enable sddm

Edit:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM

Last edited by Malkymder (2015-08-13 15:32:08)