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ulaume

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Registered: 2018-05-05

Posts: 8

[SOLVED]Black screen with cursor on second monitor after upgrading

Hi Folks,
After performing a pacman -Syu and rebooting earlier today, I'm no longer able to get my second monitor going - any help troubleshooting would be really appreciated. I'm using x server with i3, running on a lenovo t430 w/ intel & nvidia graphics. I'm suspecting the xserver as the source of the issue but can't find any evidence that that's the case.

drivers:

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: Lenovo 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
	Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [NVS 5400M] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo GF108M [NVS 5400M]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau

Here's a list of what was upgraded:

[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.44.1-1 -> 1.44.2-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded krb5 (1.16-1 -> 1.16.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.16.8-1 -> 4.16.9-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded acpi_call (1.1.0-128 -> 1.1.0-129)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded c-ares (1.13.0-1 -> 1.14.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded nss (3.36.1-1 -> 3.37-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded libdrm (2.4.91-3 -> 2.4.92-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded wayland (1.14.0-1 -> 1.15.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (18.0.3-1 -> 18.0.3-4)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded libepoxy (1.5.1-1 -> 1.5.2-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded wayland-protocols (1.13-1 -> 1.14-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded ca-certificates-mozilla (3.36.1-1 -> 3.37-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded atom (1.26.1-1 -> 1.27.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded bluez-libs (5.49-3 -> 5.49-4)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xdg-utils (1.1.2-2 -> 1.1.3-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (66.0.3359.170-1 -> 66.0.3359.181-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded curl (7.59.0-2 -> 7.60.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded feh (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded firefox (60.0-1 -> 60.0.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded gstreamer (1.14.0-1 -> 1.14.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded gst-plugins-base-libs (1.14.0-1 -> 1.14.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded gst-plugins-base (1.14.0-1 -> 1.14.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded intel-tbb (2018_20171205-1 -> 2018_20180312-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded libdmx (1.1.3-1 -> 1.1.4-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded libinput (1.10.6-1 -> 1.10.7-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.6.5-2 -> 3.6.5-3)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded meson (0.46.0-1 -> 0.46.1-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded nano (2.9.6-1 -> 2.9.7-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded neofetch (3.4.0-2 -> 4.0.2-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20180415-1 -> 20180517-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded python-setuptools (1:39.1.0-1 -> 1:39.2.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded sudo (1.8.22-1 -> 1.8.23-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-amdgpu (18.0.1-1 -> 18.0.1-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-ati (1:18.0.1-1 -> 1:18.0.1-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-dummy (0.3.8-2 -> 0.3.8-3)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-fbdev (0.4.4+12+ge0bce0d-1 -> 0.4.4+13+g9af7f81-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-intel (1:2.99.917+829+gd7dfab62-1 -> 1:2.99.917+831+ge7bfc906-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-nouveau (1.0.15-2 -> 1.0.15-3)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-openchrome (0.6.0-2 -> 0.6.0-3)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-qxl (0.1.5-5 -> 0.1.5-6)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.4.0-1 -> 2.4.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-vmware (13.2.1-3 -> 13.3.0-1)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-voodoo (1.2.5-9 -> 1.2.5-10)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xdmx (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xephyr (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xnest (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xvfb (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)
[2018-05-20 17:40] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xwayland (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2 -> 1.20.0-2)

edit: looks like i'm a little late to the party, number of similar threads reporting nvidia driver isn't compatible, sorry for the repost.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237045
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237183

edit2: upgrading to the recently released nvidia drivers 390xx resolved the issue and I was successfully able to upgrade to 1.20.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … 9-Released

Last edited by ulaume (2018-05-21 13:28:01)

ulaume

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Registered: 2018-05-05

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED]Black screen with cursor on second monitor after upgrading

So i was able to fix this temporarilly  by downgrading x server back down to 1.19, so the issue is most likely in the the intel or nvidia drivers, anyone have any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?

Downgrade xorg-server:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

But this removes all xf86-video drivers (dependencies) so I had to reinstall the older drivers:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-amdgpu-18.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-ati-1\:18.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-dummy-0.3.8-2
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-dummy-0.3.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4+12+ge0bce0d-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-intel-1\:2.99.917+829+gd7dfab62-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.15-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-openchrome-0.6.0-2
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-openchrome-0.6.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-qxl-0.1.5-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0-1
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-vmware-13.2.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.5-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 

Last edited by ulaume (2018-05-21 02:03:17)

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Re: [SOLVED]Black screen with cursor on second monitor after upgrading

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