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xleafr

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 18

Black Screen during boot Nouveau EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti [Solved]

Hello,

First I'd like to start off by admitting that I'm a newb, so I apologize in advance if posting this was unnecessary, but I searched, and though I found many similar problems, I could not solve my problem.

As stated in the subject line, I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and I cannot make it work with the open source Nouveau driver.

When I try to boot the screen goes black.

If I use the onboard VGA, it works perfectly fine, however, when I switch over to the onboard DVI, my monitor never even gets a signal. I have an MSI board with the Z77 chipset and an Intel I5.

I've tried installing the proprietary Nvidia driver and using that. It boots, the problem is I can't change the screen's resolution to anything other than 800 x 600 and my monitor is 1680 x 1050.

I'd be happy using either driver as long as it works correctly.

Oh yea, I'm running kernel 3.4.5 (which I believe is the latest) and the rest of my system is completely up to date, so please don't link me here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1102763

Thanks in advance!
-daniel

Last edited by xleafr (2012-07-30 04:23:35)

wonder

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Re: Black Screen during boot Nouveau EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti [Solved]

the issue should be fixed in 3.4.5 or in 3.5(for sure). I don't suggest to use nouveau with that card since opengl is slow as hell because it doesn't have support for reclocking and it's working at minimal speed.
better use nvidia, who uses tty in 2012 ? maybe just when there is a problem in the graphical interface.

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xleafr

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 18

Re: Black Screen during boot Nouveau EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti [Solved]

Okay, then onto the nvidia driver problem.

I can't set the resolution to what I want (1680 x 1050). My only option is 800 x 600 which is pretty terrible.

I've tried a few things with xrandr, but nothing worked.

Yea, I was only using tty because when I start x everything was either too large or couldn't see the command line to start x in the first place.

So how can I change my resolution (I've tried editing xorg.conf but once again, my attempt to solve my problem was fruitless).

xleafr

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 18

Re: Black Screen during boot Nouveau EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti [Solved]

Solved: got a new monitor.