[SOLVED] Screen off after installation medium and GRUB.

krambo345 · 2026-01-02 23:29:22

First of all, I am new to the Arch Linux forums, and I hope I am not asking a question with a solution that is somewhere. I did my part of the research and looked for an answer but they did not work.
So I had set up Arch Linux with Hyprland. After doing a full system update with "sudo pacman -Syu", my resolution became 1024x720. I did not think much of it and did not mind much because I was thinking of a fresh install anyways, so I did. I got the latest arch linux install medium and put it in a USB with Ventoy. That is when the first problem started, opening the Arch linux install medium booted, but then turned off my display. I can verify, however, that the medium was running, it was only the display that was off. So I rebooted, tried again, and the same thing. It did not take much research to get in the install medium with "nomodeset" to get a fresh install. It did not take long till I got to GRUB, selected Arch Linux, and boot into arch... That is what I thought until the display turned off AGAIN while the system was running. Again, got in there with "nomodeset". By now I understood something was defineatly wrong with the GPU or drivers, but elimenated GPU beause the computer did open. I installed the properitary nvidia drivers (nvidia-dkms, nvidia-utils, nvidia-settings). I will note here that pacman did not find "nvidia". Rebooted, and did not need nomodeset. But it was clear when I(originally) booted into awesomewm, the resolution was not 1920x1080. I used xrandr to find that my display was put as "none-1"(or smth like that i forgor). Looked around, found nothing. So I changed to i3 with a fresh install so no packets interfered(required "nomodeset" again). The resolution was also broken in i3. Then finally moved onto hyprland as I expected wayland, the never technology, to fix this(spoilers: it did not). "hyprctl monitors" and "hyprctl monitors all" labels my monitor as "unknown-1". Did everything I can: check the arch linux forums, blogs, other (non-arch linux) forums, even chatgpt. Nothing worked. Also I tried installing the nvidia-580xx packages, did not: 1. enter arch linux without "nomodeset", 2. allow starting hyprland. So I am here now, asking for assistance.
I am so sorry for how long this is, just tried to give every detail I can remember to help yall help me. I have a GTX 1050TI and vanilla linux(not ltx, zen, or smth else) and vanilla arch linux. Thank you for any help.

Last edited by krambo345 (2026-01-05 05:03:14)

seth · 2026-01-02 23:35:05

my resolution became 1024x720 … have a GTX 1050TI

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-d … l-modules/

And please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

my display was put as "none-1"(or smth like that i forgor)

"Unknown" - because you're running on the simpledrm device…

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wall_of_text and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph

krambo345 · 2026-01-02 23:41:47

I am sorry for the mistakes.
I mentioned the nvidia properity drivers to explain that they did not work.
I later on explained that using the nvidia-580xx drivers did not work as I still could not enter arch linux(display turned off) and hyprland crashed.

seth · 2026-01-02 23:51:35

You're gonna need the 580xx drivers, so install those and post the system journal for that configuration as well as the backtrace for the hype land crash.
You should at least be able to boot the multi-user.target (see the 2nd link below)

krambo345 · 2026-01-03 00:45:36

I got both of the files.
Also I could not find a way to upload the files here, so I uploaded them to limewire.
https://limewire.com/d/mSLaN#zVUL7ZgYzZ

Also the nvidia-580xx driver did fix my screen resolution, but hyprland did not launch. It froze and the display turned off.
Reverting to the nvidia propriety drivers started causing hyprland to freeze and turn off the screen again.

Last edited by krambo345 (2026-01-03 00:50:04)

seth · 2026-01-03 06:36:01

Also I could not find a way to upload the files here

1st link below…

That's not your journal but some random excerpt and it suggests that you installed the 590xx open driver

Jan 03 00:18:34 archy kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1c82)
                              NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open
                              NVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU
                              NVRM: System Processor (GSP).
                              NVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP
                              NVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on
                              NVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at
                              NVRM: www.nvidia.com.

Hyperland aborts when trying to initialize EGL, what's unsurprising given the incompatible driver installation.
This approach will never work - abandon that.

seth wrote:

You're gonna need the 580xx drivers

the nvidia-580xx driver did fix my screen resolution, but hyprland did not launch. It froze and the display turned off.

We'll need data on that situation, can you switch the VT and or get a hyprland report from that attempt?

krambo345 · 2026-01-03 13:43:20

Yeah I did put the hyprland crash report from the screen turning off. I put it in the limewise which has 2 files. One file is the journalctl output and the other being the hyprland crash report exported from /home/krambo345/.cache/hyprland.
I exported the journalctl output with journalctl -b -p err --no-pager > journal.txt. Let me know if you would like it exported in another way.
Also can you define VT?

seth · 2026-01-03 13:48:27

"Virtual Terminal", ctrl+alt+f3

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

The hyprland report in the limewire folder fails to load an EGL driver what makes it unlikely to be related to a sane nvidia 580xx installation.
Also post

(nvidia-smi; eglinfo -B) | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

krambo345 · 2026-01-03 15:40:58

Alrighty I have found a solution.
Here it is for future reference:

After installing arch linux, if your display turns off after GRUB:
1. Highlight Arch Linux from the GRUB menu.
2. Press "e" on your keyboard.
3. In the end of the line of

linux     /vmlinuz-linux root=<random string here> rw zswap.enabled=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=3 quiet

(or similar), add

nomodeset

4. Adding

nomodeset

should allow you to enter your Arch Linux install without graphics.

Now, this is happening in the first place because your GPU is no longer supported. Consequently you will need legacy drivers. Please refer to this page.

After picking your legacy driver from the linked page above, install it using yay. In my situation with my GTX 1050 TI(Pascal), I used the "nvidia-580xx" drivers, which consist of dkms, utils, and settings(settings are optional).

For example:

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

yay -S nvidia-580xx-utils

Now the following steps are crucial, we need to install the linux-headers:

sudo pacman -S linux-headers

From here, we must blacklist nouveau with the following:

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

You may use your preferred editor, like nano. This may create a new file and that is ok.

Then add the following to the file:

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

From here we regenerate initramfs with:

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Now we come to the satisfying step:

reboot

After all of that work, you should have a great resolution.

What this fixed(in my case):
1. Wrong resolution (1024x720, not 1920x1080)
2. Undetected monitor input(via hyprctl and xrandr)
3. Hyprland crash while starting, due to drivers.

Things to note(still in my case):
1. My live USB installation medium still turns off display. My theory is that legacy drivers are not loaded into it.
2. Because I just downloaded the drivers, alongside my lack of knowledge, you may need to actively update your yay packages alongside your pacman packages to keep your drivers up to date(take it with a grain of salt).
3. I put it last, but DO NOT install the proprietary drivers, and uninstall them if you already have installed them. They only cause more trouble.
4. I did this for Hyprland, case may or may not be different for i3, Sway, AwesomeWM, etc.

Thank you Seth for your active feedback and support. I might have never been able to fix this issue if it wasn't for you! You mentioning the system journal lead me to check it where I found the main problem(nvidia_uvm module did not load) which led me to finally fix it. You are the best!

Last edited by krambo345 (2026-01-05 04:59:28)

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[SOLVED] Screen off after installation medium and GRUB.

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