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#1 2021-08-20 22:05:55
- DexTi
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[Solved] Black Screen in Shell
It's my first Post and Im new to Arch | OK
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- To start i3 I used xinit, not DispManager
- I can enter i3
After installing the NVIDIA drivers and removing the Nouveau drivers, I restarted the pc and the screen went black, but I could blindly type into the shell. 
Last edited by DexTi (2021-08-24 14:47:04)
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#2 2021-08-21 06:24:31
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/T … ramebuffer
Or try to force an output/resolution (if you already do, the output name likely changed w/ the driver)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torva … modedb.rst
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#3 2021-08-23 14:05:51
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
seth - Try both options to disable framebuffer but shell still not showing
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#4 2021-08-23 14:39:55
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
Do you get output when booting "nomodeset"?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters
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#5 2021-08-23 15:47:15
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
seth - Do I have to put "nomodeset" in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT ? or what do you mean
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#6 2021-08-23 15:51:54
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
It's better to test this by editing the kernel command line in grub.
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#7 2021-08-23 17:08:33
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
After putting "nomodeset" Now the Shell is shown, but is there any way that the resolution adapts to the screen?
will there be a conflict with "nvidia-drm.modeset = 1"?
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#8 2021-08-23 20:41:42
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
Booting nomodeset will especially not allow you to run a graphical session, but it also kinda suggests that a vga console should™ work.
(Not necessarily, there could be a weird bug)
Did you re-generate the grub.cfg after editing /etc/default/grub? (because otherwise that doesn't do anything)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#G … d_grub.cfg
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#9 2021-08-23 21:11:54
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
Yes I generated the grub, but what I don't like is the resolution of the shell since I want to use a Console Display Manager
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#10 2021-08-23 21:22:20
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
No. 1 question would be: does this work (ie. do you get a visible textshell and can you start X11 afterwards)
The VGA shell is restricted to this resolution, the best you could to is to have the display stretch it out (external outputs likely have an OSD setting for that, internal notebook displays rather not - maybe a BIOS setting)
The next question would be whether you tried enforcing a resolution, which - and the output of "xrandr -q" (for a sanity check)
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#11 2021-08-23 23:27:41
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
Yes, I can start X
But I think at this point I would leave it, thanks for helping me with this problem.
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#12 2021-08-24 05:29:40
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Re: [Solved] Black Screen in Shell
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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