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pontikis

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[SOLVED] No display after nvidia 290.10 setup

Hello

I have recently come to Arch from Ubuntu. I am a developer - not a gamer
Last three days I setup my system (xfce4) using nouveau driver and everything seems excellent.

Switching to nvidia (pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils) according to wiki, after kernel boot I have no display, no keyboard...
I can only do ssh to new machine.

My card is Asus GeForce GTX550 Ti 1024MB on an INTEL CPU Core i7-2700K - 16 GB RAM
xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/a4fi4EVU
/var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/kbD7rKxK

Any help will be appreciated

Thank you

Last edited by pontikis (2012-01-03 12:24:19)

Xabre

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Re: [SOLVED] No display after nvidia 290.10 setup

Disable Nouveau KMS, than try.

pontikis

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Re: [SOLVED] No display after nvidia 290.10 setup

Thank you!

I was thinking that /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf was enough, but it was not...

What I achieved is to set the kernel line in grub as:

kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro nomodeset

I loose the resolution in boot console, but now X starts and nvidia driver is active (!)

I tried something like

kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

but it has no results. No display at boot...

I see that the right solution is described here   http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting
but I cannot understand it

Is kernel line 'nomodeset' solution the right solution? Have you something else to advice me?

pontikis

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Re: [SOLVED] No display after nvidia 290.10 setup

So, a solution (using GRUb legacy) would be

kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=773 nomodeset

* this will also provide a higher resolution to console (vga=773)

pontikis

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Re: [SOLVED] No display after nvidia 290.10 setup

*** UPDATED FOR GRUB2 ***

After upgrade the system from Grub legacy to GRUB2, the above settings can be applied, as follows:

nano /etc/default/grub

Add 'nomodeset' to line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" (for some reason 'rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0' is not working, only nomodeset is working)

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

vga= settings are deprecated in Grub2. The relevant setting is GRUB_GFXMODE

GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32

To generate the changes, run:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg