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paulb787

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 49

Black Screen On Boot After Nvidia Driver

I just installed arch and went to install my nvidia driver right afterwards. I now boot up and after grub i get a black screen. I am 99 percent sure i know what this problem is and i have had somthing similar with gentoo. I have a sandybridge so i have my nvidia card and the intel hd graphics. i remember in gentoo i had to go in the kernel config and disable intel hd graphics . i dont know how i would go about doing this here as i am new . i really dont want a custom kernel.

Last edited by paulb787 (2012-06-18 09:25:03)

paulb787

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 49

Re: Black Screen On Boot After Nvidia Driver

SEMI-SOlVED

if you have a sandybridge motherboard and have intel hd graphics on in your bios (Lucid). after the nvidia driver is installed  udev seems to pick up the intel card at boot. Blacklist i915 and intel_agp to fix this problem.

what loads those modules udev? mkinitcpio? is there any way to have them both? like choice your primary video card? im sure if i had two monitors i would be able to boot up with the one pluged in to intel graphics and when X loads xinerma would work with both. i dont have dual monitors but it still would be nice to have an option. is there any sandybridge features in linux?

Thank You
Paul

Last edited by paulb787 (2012-06-18 09:28:46)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: Black Screen On Boot After Nvidia Driver

Have a look at Bumblebee.

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