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iith4ahm

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Registered: 2021-01-11

Posts: 53

Blank screen without nvidia drivers

I just tried switching from nvidea drivers to nouveau. I got a blank screen (and monitor might have gone to sleep) on boot up. Adding nomodeset kernel parameter gave me a prompt, but I could not start X. I flashed a new installation image usb which also gave me a blank screen on boot.

Reinstalling nvidia fixes the issue. I have a GT 640.

Thank you

> sudo journalctl -b -2 -p warning                                                                                                                                                             
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)                                                                                                  
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0)
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: Could not retrieve perf counters (-19)
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:47ff1b63b140b6fc04ed79131
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:5391c3a2fb112102a6aa1edc2
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:80b4d96931bf0d02fd91a61e1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:992d359aa7a5f789d268b94c1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:c452ab846073df5ace25cca64
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: blacklist: Duplicate blacklisted hash bin:e051b788ecbaeda53046c70e6
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-D-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for HDMI-A-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-D-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for HDMI-A-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-D-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava kernel: nouveau 0000:26:00.0: drm: DDC responded, but no EDID for HDMI-A-1
Jan 17 23:45:38 lava (udev-worker)[430]: host9: /etc/udev/rules.d/hd_power_save.rules:1 Failed t
Jan 17 23:45:39 lava kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db faile
Jan 17 23:45:39 lava dhcpcd[544]: no interfaces have a carrier
Jan 17 23:45:50 lava kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be 
Jan 17 23:45:50 lava systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[823]: /home/paul/.config/autostart/jami-gno
Jan 17 23:45:54 lava dhcpcd[544]: script_status: /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks: Terminated
Jan 17 23:45:54 lava kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!

Edit: lsmod showed nouveau (usedby was 0). I checked /etc/modprobe.d/ and /usr/lib/modprobe.d/ checking for blacklisting and I want to say that I would have seen the nvidia-470xx-utils.conf blacklist entry that I can now see, but I can't say for sure (must not have been blacklisted though if it showed up in lsmod?). mesa and  xf86-video-nouveau were installed.

Edit: this isn't as important now that i have the nvidia driver working, although if i got the nouveau drivers to work just as good then it would make maintenance/upgrading more integrated since it wouldn't be from the AUR

Last edited by iith4ahm (2025-01-18 20:39:34)

dzusan

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Registered: 2012-05-18

Posts: 29

Re: Blank screen without nvidia drivers

pacman -Rs nvidia-utils

On my setup nouveau worked with limited functionality until nvidia was completely removed.