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E5ten

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Registered: 2018-01-08

Posts: 16

Nvidia driver blackscreen

I am on a macbook air from 2010, which has a geforce 320m igpu. After installing the nvidia-340xx driver, my computer displayed a blackscreen on boot, the advice I got was to use the kernel parameter "nomodeset", but this didn't stop the problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Nvidia driver blackscreen

Welcome to the forums E5ten

Have you tried...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mac#NVIDIA_note

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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E5ten

Member

Registered: 2018-01-08

Posts: 16

Re: Nvidia driver blackscreen

Sorry for the really late reply, the issue is that I don't use grub so I can't really make that solution work. the wiki says here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … 7,1#Nvidia that this can also be accomplished with a udev hook, but after some looking around I have not been able to figure out how to make a udev hook that can do what I need. Does anyone have experience with that?