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hooky.mars

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[SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Hi everyone!

I've installed Arch Linux with nvidia-dkms+xfce4. Everitying had been fine untill I installed linux-headers. It produces building of nvidia dkms. So after reboot I see black screen but I can swich to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F2)

Deletetion of linux-headers & reboot solves the issue but I need to have linux-heades for virtualbox-dkms....
How can I solve the issue? I mean how can I have normal GUI with linux-headers?

Thanks,
Sergey

Last edited by hooky.mars (2018-01-28 18:02:53)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Is there a reason you're using the *-dkms packages instead of the standard ones?
Which kernel are you running?

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hooky.mars

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

nvidia (without dkms) package produces black screen at any cases. Virtualbox do not want to start vm without virtualbox-host-dkms....

>uname -a
Linux hooky-mars 4.14.15-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 23 21:49:25 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by hooky.mars (2018-01-28 15:43:46)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

I don't believe that your issue has anything to do with using standard vs. dkms variants of the packages. Without linux-headers installed the nvidia-dkms package never would have been built, so X would have fallen back to the inbuilt kernel driver. You also don't need to install the virtualbox-host-dkms package unless you're using a custom kernel.

I would suggest removing linux-headers and installing the virtualbox-host-modules-arch package, this will take care of all of your VirtualBox needs. As to why the nvidia package isn't working you need to provide more details of your hardware, is this an optimus system with dual GPU's?

Post the output of...

lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D

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hooky.mars

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 635M] (rev a1)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Yep, it's an optimus system. You need to choose one of these methods to correctly install the drivers...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

I believe that most users tend to go with bumblebee...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

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hooky.mars

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Thank you very much!
I am trying it

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Double VGA isn't modern optimus necessarily, another option to the above might be to check your BIOS if you have an option to dedicatedly switch to the nvidia card as opposed to a hybrid style setup.

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Oops, you're correct of course.
That's my fault for skim reading the output.

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hooky.mars

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

I do not remember such option in BIOS I will check twice.

Now I've configured bumblebee and installed virtualbox-host-modules-arch.
Everything is working perfectly! Another issue was solved too: high temprature of CPUs and GPU

Thanks!!

Last edited by hooky.mars (2018-01-28 16:41:55)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia-dkms -> black screen with linux-headers

Great. Please remember to mark this thread as [SOLVED]...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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