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paldepind

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From: Århus, Denmark

Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 141

Black screen with proprietary NVIDIA driver

I'm having a tremendous amount of troubles getting Xorg to work on my Thinkpad W530 with the proprietary NVIDIA driver.

The W530 has the Optimus technology but I've disabled it in the BIOS so only the NVIDIA card is active. I've been using nouveau up until now but I can't keep it due to its outdated OpenGL support.

So per the wiki I installed `nvidia` and removed nouveau. But since then I run `startx` the screen goes completely black. But the X server keeps running and my WM starts fine. I can open a terminal blindly with a hotkey and reboot the machine.

I've tried the following suggetions without any success:

• Booting with `rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1` as a kernel parameter

• Booting with `nomodeset` as a kernel parameter

• Adding

  install i915 /usr/bin/false
  install intel_agp /usr/bin/false

  to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

• Manually adding the graphic cards bus ID in xorg.conf

• Adding

  xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
  xrandr --auto

  to my .xinitrc

• Adding

  xrandr --setprovideroutputsource Intel NVIDIA-0
  xrandr --auto

  to my .xinitrc

Further suggestions and ideas are highly appreciated – I really need to get the nvidia driver to work one way or another!

d-mon

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Registered: 2014-10-15

Posts: 18

Re: Black screen with proprietary NVIDIA driver

I'm having the same problem. If I add nolapic as a kernel parameter, the screen does not go black, but then I only have one cpu core. So that it not a working solution.

d-mon

Member

Registered: 2014-10-15

Posts: 18

Re: Black screen with proprietary NVIDIA driver

I just added https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/repo-ck, and installed linux-ck-ivybridge and nvidia-ck-ivybridge, then recreated grub.cfg and now it works. Got the hint from this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1466438