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1Poireau

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From: France

Registered: 2023-04-01

Posts: 18

Black screen after installing Zen kernel

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to install the Zen kernel for my GPU-Passthrought and have the ACS patches but when i boot, i see a black screen.
I have heard in this forum that some people have almost the same issue and some person have tell to their to install (like it's written also on the wiki) nvidia-dkms
But when i try to install it, it say that nvidia-dkms is in conflict with nvidia. Should i force it ?

I'm asking the question before doing it because my system is not really stable right now (for exemple one GPU works only for the grub, and the other only for the classic linux kernel) and i don't won't to cause another truble to my machine.
Can someone help me ?

The wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Custom_kernel

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Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4GHz.
RTX3060 & 32 GB RAM
On Arch since march 2023
Trying to rice !

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,204

Re: Black screen after installing Zen kernel

You should install nvidia-dkms and the headers of the kernels you intend to be using so in this case linux-zen-headers and linux-headers if you use the normal ones. That the GPU only works with the standard kernel with the normal nvidia module is completely normal and expected. A kernel module is per kernel, nvidia is only for the standard linux package. If you want anything else you need nvidia-dkms and the headers of the kernels you intend to be using so the rebuild of the nvidia module can happen against your kernel's headers.