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VelocityDv

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Registered: 2022-01-04

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[SOLVED] tty from lightdm get to black screen

Hello, thanks for reading my post.

Im using an Apple Imac with geforce 640M graphics cards running arch linux.
I've recently installed the graphics drivers 390xx following the arch wiki but after trying to get into tty by ctrl + alt + f1 to f6 to fix "failed to start session error" for lightdm. I have encountered a black screen after entering tty and cannot do anything.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Last edited by VelocityDv (2022-01-10 22:36:40)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] tty from lightdm get to black screen

For black screen on the TTY you can try enabling the modesetting parameter: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

FWIW there used to be a TTY switching bug in recent xorg versions, make sure you are up to date here.

VelocityDv

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Re: [SOLVED] tty from lightdm get to black screen

i accessed terminal through chroot

Last edited by VelocityDv (2022-01-04 22:47:07)

VelocityDv

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Re: [SOLVED] tty from lightdm get to black screen

after using modesetting parameter still nothing. also updated xorg

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] tty from lightdm get to black screen

Can you boot directly to the TTY via the

systemd.unit=multi-user.target

kernel parameter and then take things from there? What's your journal output for the failing boot e.g.

sudo journalctl -b-1

for the previous to current boot: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services did you generally install all the necessary nvidia packages

pacman -Qs nvidia

and did you ensure to have the linux-headers package for the current kernel installed?

Last edited by V1del (2022-01-05 07:31:35)