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JimDeadlock

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 83

[SOLVED] Linux Zen Black Screen

I've installed linux-zen but unfortunately it boots to black screen with cursor. This is 5.6.14.zen1-1 that's currently failing, whereas 5.6.14-arch1-1 is booting fine. I use EFISTUB as my bootloader, using efibootmgr to set the boot order and I have Nvidia graphics with Gnome. I've tried adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel parameters but still no joy. Is anyone else successfully running the Zen kernel? I'm wondering if it's a problem on my end or just a bad kernel.

Edit: I'm able to switch to TTY under Zen and console commands run fine, it just doesn't want to load the GUI.

Last edited by JimDeadlock (2020-05-23 18:15:11)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Linux Zen Black Screen

If you are running the prop drivers you need to install nvidia-dkms (and linux-headers for all kernels so zen and linux) instead of nvidia to ensure the kernel module is compiled for all kernels.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … stallation as well.

JimDeadlock

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] Linux Zen Black Screen

Works like a charm! Thank you!