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brrbrrbruno

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 24

xorg 1.19 + nvidia driver + 460 gtx = black screen, no boot, no shell

Hello,

i recently had a problem with my nvidia 460 due to driver issues discussed here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216209

since this issue was marked solved I ran an update and got the problem described in subject line.

after a lot of wasted time and chrooting I managed to find a configuration that works for the geforce 460 gtx card with proprietary drivers ( i managed to install nouveau, but the experience was noticably worse ) ... and I leave it here, because someone might have the same weird special case ...

linux 4.18.13 ( linux-lts / nvidia-lts did not work for me ... )
nvidia 375.10-1 ( anything below was to old ( wasn't able to rever to former working 367.35-xx ) and nvidia 375.20-xx and 375.26-xx both crashed )
xorg-server 1.18.4-1 ( which was a pain to downgrade ... )

in pacman.conf i currently have:
IgnorePkg   = linux linux-headers nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl nvidia-dkms
IgnoreGroup = xorg

Please report back here, if you made something else work, I will report if future upgrades resolve the situation ...

Last edited by brrbrrbruno (2017-01-31 15:40:21)

oxfn

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Registered: 2014-02-17

Posts: 2

Re: xorg 1.19 + nvidia driver + 460 gtx = black screen, no boot, no shell

Hello!
I've had the same issue recently, after update on 31/1. startx was hanging up forever and reboot/shutdown could not be finished (even when I did not attempt to startx).
Seems that problem was in lib32-libdrm while there was last log message from drm module before Xorg hangup.
Yesterday I've pulled fresh updates (including lib32-libdrm package) and Xorg came back to life. I think, it was fixed in this packages:

[2017-02-08 00:13] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-libdrm (2.4.74-1 -> 2.4.75-1)
[2017-02-08 00:13] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.9.6-1 -> 4.9.7-1)

brrbrrbruno

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 24

Re: xorg 1.19 + nvidia driver + 460 gtx = black screen, no boot, no shell

Thanks for letting me know!
Yes this issue is solved and one can now update ... but you could still run into the following issue:
after updating I got no gnome didn't start, but I could log into a shell.

$ startx

complained about "missing" libEGL.so.1 , but after some searching i found out that I had to temporarily remove the nvidia package install mesa-libgl and reinstall nvidia package ... which made libEGL.so.1 reappear and after that startx brought up gnome ...
the things you do for updates ...

Last edited by brrbrrbruno (2017-02-13 14:42:22)