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fgosdisaj

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Registered: 2022-09-25

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Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

After updating to latest nvidia drivers the system just boots into a black screen with no way to change to TTY. I've tried with fresh reformat and reinstalls but the issue persist.
I've read a few reports about this, and it seems to be affecting the 3000 series card.

Here are a few threads about this on reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … ed_nvidia/

https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … 6_drivers/

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,891

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75995

kgtuning

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 60

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

After updating to latest nvidia drivers the system just boots into a black screen with no way to change to TTY. I've tried with fresh reformat and reinstalls but the issue persist.
I've read a few reports about this, and it seems to be affecting the 3000 series card.

Here are a few threads about this on reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … ed_nvidia/

https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … 6_drivers/

If you are reinstalling then you need to install nvidia 515.65. So I reinstalled and set my pacman conf to pull packages from just before the 515.76 update. I used this as reference:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive

Might be a better way to do it but I’m a noob

PutridPete

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Registered: 2021-10-25

Posts: 21

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

Hi there, and welcome to the forums!

I just want to throw my hat in the ring and say that I own a 3070ti and experienced no issues whatsoever with the new drivers. If you check the comments for the first thread you linked (and dig a little deeper down the bottom), you'll find some people like myself with a 30 series card and everything working fine for them too. You'll also see comments of people with a 10 series card, and even a 970 card having the same problem. The second thread you linked, in fact, is of someone with a 1070 GPU experiencing said issue.

I go out of my way to point this out not to disparage your post, but to highlight that since we can't properly pinpoint this issue yet, we also can't proclaim it only happens to 30 series cards. Furthermore, I believe we should direct all these types of posts to NVIDIA, since their drivers remain (for the most part) closed source and only they can properly do anything to fix this.

As to your issue, it seems some people have found success by downgrading to nvidia 515.65, so like the poster above me said, you'd want to install this version. Other reports suggest you should downgrade your kernel too, or switch to nvidia-dkms. Obviously I can't verify this myself (as I haven't experienced the issue) but it's worth a try. If your install is fresh, remember that you can add any previous version of a package using the Arch Linux Archive. Then, you can proceed to downgrade packages as needed.

kgtuning

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 60

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

Hi there, and welcome to the forums!

I just want to throw my hat in the ring and say that I own a 3070ti and experienced no issues whatsoever with the new drivers. If you check the comments for the first thread you linked (and dig a little deeper down the bottom), you'll find some people like myself with a 30 series card and everything working fine for them too. You'll also see comments of people with a 10 series card, and even a 970 card having the same problem. The second thread you linked, in fact, is of someone with a 1070 GPU experiencing said issue.

I go out of my way to point this out not to disparage your post, but to highlight that since we can't properly pinpoint this issue yet, we also can't proclaim it only happens to 30 series cards. Furthermore, I believe we should direct all these types of posts to NVIDIA, since their drivers remain (for the most part) closed source and only they can properly do anything to fix this.

As to your issue, it seems some people have found success by downgrading to nvidia 515.65, so like the poster above me said, you'd want to install this version. Other reports suggest you should downgrade your kernel too, or switch to nvidia-dkms. Obviously I can't verify this myself (as I haven't experienced the issue) but it's worth a try. If your install is fresh, remember that you can add any previous version of a package using the Arch Linux Archive. Then, you can proceed to downgrade packages as needed.

Unfortunately in that reddit post no one posts system specifics. It is hard to troubleshoot or determine what the cause is. What driver are you using? Nvidia or nvidia-dkms?

PutridPete

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Registered: 2021-10-25

Posts: 21

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

Here's a summary of my system:

Kernel: 5.19.11-zen1-1-zen
Motherboard: Asrock B550 PG Velocita
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (EVGA XC3)
Driver: NVIDIA 515.76 (nvidia-dkms)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
RAM: 64 GB @ 3200mhz

Not sure if this is important, but I use 2 monitors @ 165hz. Everything works fine for me.

kgtuning

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 60

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

I was thinking it had to do with the nvidia vs nvidia-dkms drivers but there are a few users with the dkms driver having black screens as well. I wish I had time to compile a spreadsheet of users and drivers/ hardware to help find the problem. Worth a mention… Windows users had a hard time with their nvidia update the other day as well.

tmske

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Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 21

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

I have the same issue. After downgrading with `pacman -U nvidia nvidia-utils` I get some control back, but now the tty1 keeps hanging on `starting version ....`. At this point I do have some control back, but still can't do anything. Restarting `sddm.service` does not help either.
Should I downgrade in a different way?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,206

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

The nvidia package is built against a specific kernel, you also need to downgrade the kernel to the matching version your nvidia package was built against, or switch to the appropriate nvidia-dkms package for doing the module rebuild against your current kernel (granted you have linux-headers or so installed) locally.

Regarding the discussion above. No actual building errors non-withstanding there are no functional differences between nvidia and nvidia-dkms. The former is a prebuilt module against an exact kernel version, the latter allows you to do the rebuilds locally against whatever kernels you happen to have installed. In this particular case if you wanted to downgrade your nvidia driver you have the two logical options outlined above.

Last edited by V1del (2022-09-30 13:39:05)

tmske

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Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 21

Re: Nvidia 515.76-1 on 3000 series card does not work

Thanks, that solved it indeed!