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ootks

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Registered: 2020-07-31

Posts: 2

nvidia drivers causes black screen on boot

I have an nvidia gpu and wanted to install the proprietary drivers. I installed them with

pacman -S nvidia

When I tried this, and rebooted, it caused the screen to go black after booting. Running journalctl did not show any warnings, but did indicate that the boot stalls shortly after the nvidia drivers are loaded. I tried adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters, and this seemed to fix the issue, though I am not sure why, as I thought that it should not need to be set when using nvidia proprietary drivers. Does anyone know how I can correct this issue without needing the nomodeset flag?

I am using an nvidia 1050ti gpu, and running the latest version of Arch.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,743

Re: nvidia drivers causes black screen on boot

The X11 driver is in nvidia-utils…

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