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#1 2012-01-08 14:17:59

Trieforce
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[macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

If I start x or gdm I get black screen and cant return even to tty, yet it is working because I can reboot.

Info: Dualboot Arch and Lion, Grub2 efi x64, nvidia driver.

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#2 2012-01-10 08:14:43

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

May be I can post some logs, just tell me what is relevant in this situation?

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#3 2012-01-11 05:45:13

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

What is the output of

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

If this is a video driver problem, the following wiki pages should be helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X#Troubleshooting
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau

What driver have you installed?

Last edited by leocp1 (2012-01-11 05:46:37)

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#4 2012-01-11 06:35:53

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

Have you tried logging in blindly and starting X. Happens to me every n-th reboot that I get a blank screen. But I can login and startx, and once X is running, I get a picture as well.

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#5 2012-01-11 08:32:00

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

leocp1 wrote:

What driver have you installed?

nouveau outputs "glitches" that makes output totally unreadable(tty), nvidia is working well with tty but it outputs blank screen if I do "startx" or "gdm".

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#6 2012-01-11 08:33:17

Trieforce
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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

JackH79 wrote:

Have you tried logging in blindly and starting X. Happens to me every n-th reboot that I get a blank screen. But I can login and startx, and once X is running, I get a picture as well.

Well the problem that in my case it turns black when I do "startx". Whill try nvidia-bl btw...

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#7 2012-01-11 08:51:41

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

[   392.360] Current Operating System: Linux myhost 3.1.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 7 08:59:43 CET 2012 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   392.370] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the display subsystem for the NVIDIA
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     graphics device!
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize dac HAL
[   393.111] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

From /var/log/X.0.log but there are {1..6}

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#8 2012-01-11 08:54:28

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Re: [macbook air 3,2]Black screen when starting X

Trieforce wrote:
[   392.360] Current Operating System: Linux myhost 3.1.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 7 08:59:43 CET 2012 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   392.370] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the display subsystem for the NVIDIA
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     graphics device!
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)
[   393.110] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize dac HAL
[   393.111] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

From /var/log/X.0.log but there are {1..6}

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123306 <- same problem

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