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shawn1345

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Registered: 2014-01-23

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA Driver Black Screen

I'm having issues with the proprietary nvidia driver on a custom built system.

I spent 2 days getting Arch to install on a ZFS RAID mirror with 2 drives. The install went smoothly up until the nvidia driver was installed.
The system boots fine to a TTY and I can login blindly and through ssh, but otherwise the screen is black. The nouveau driver works with the TTY but causes X to crash on my system.
I don't suspect ZFS causing issues but it is the last thing I did before installing the nvidia driver.

Here is the output of lspci -v

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 2758
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
	Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau

Last edited by shawn1345 (2017-01-23 02:22:28)

shawn1345

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From: The Internet

Registered: 2014-01-23

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA Driver Black Screen

Did some more digging and did a UEFI reset. Nvidia driver works without issue. Marking as solved.