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Peikko

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Registered: 2011-11-18

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Screen does not display properly after boot.

Hello,

two days ago I have updated my desktop with a NVIDIA 1070. I thought this would be a good time to freshly install everything. After installing and setting up Windows I wanted to start installing Arch. I have used the latest ISO that is available and burned it to a CD.

After selecting the boot device every thing seems to work fine. It start booting and I get the output

:: running early hook [udev]
starting version 230
:: running early hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...

But this screen didn't go away. I don't see any boot progress. All I keep seeing is the output above. I thought that the boot failed.
Then I just typed "reboot" or "poweroff" blindly and the PC was rebooted/shut down. So I belive that the Screen freezes or Arch doesn't properly detect it and doesn't display anything.

As I said I am using a NVIDIA 1070 connected via DVI-D to a Korean QNIX. It only has a DVI-D port so I can't just use something else.
I have no idea what is causing this and no idea where to go from here.

Just for testing purpose I have tryed Ubuntu and it booted fine.

jasonwryan

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Re: Screen does not display properly after boot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … odesetting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … leshooting

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Peikko

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Registered: 2011-11-18

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Re: Screen does not display properly after boot.

I have tryed several variations of the kernel parameter at boot without luck.

drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=DVI-1:ediid/1920x1080.bin
drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=DVI-D-1:ediid/1920x1080.bin

Edit:

setting

nomodeset nouveau.nomodeset=0

did the trick.

Now I am wondering... I probably will have to do further configuration after the installation, right? Or will installing nvidia proprietary driver take care of this?

Last edited by Peikko (2016-07-13 20:04:49)

jasonwryan

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Re: Screen does not display properly after boot.

The proprietary driver should work (but I have no experience with that specific card).

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headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: Screen does not display properly after boot.

If the proprietary driver works then it will blacklist nouveau and you shouldn't have to worry about those kernel line parameters.