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Fabx

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Registered: 2023-01-27

Posts: 4

video frames of TTY do not get updated

Fresh Arch install made today, with open source drivers and iGPU enabled from BIOS this doesn't happen, but if i install:

Sudo pacman -S nvidia for the nvidia driver, and try to access the TTY, i only get the first frame which displays System uvdev version and disk partition.

No visible cursor blink or anything, like a stuck picture.

CPU: i7-10700
GPU: GTX 970 Strix

Already tried adding "nomodset" just in case in /etc/boot/grub, it hasn't fixed the issue.

packages installed automatically alongside "nvidia"

nvidia egl-wayland eglexternalplatform nvidia-utils

Does the TTY by default try to render on mesa, but then a conflict happens with the nvidia driver?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,257

Re: video frames of TTY do not get updated

If you do have an iGPU that is active that could be the case (check your BIOS you should be able to disable the integrated card) or pass  module.blacklist=i915 to the kernel params.

What's generally more likely though is the ibt fault with recent kernels and CPU, so add ibt=off to your kernel parameters and retry, note the blue note under: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation