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Fly_out

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LightDM fails to display with nvidia proprietary drivers

LightDM fails to display any real image, besides an active blacklight and a non-moving or blinking underscore cursor left over from booting, but works with xf86-video-intel intel drivers. I reproduce this by changing the Device in the screen section from my Xorg config file from the xf86-video-intel to the Nvidia driver.

I have looked through the Xorg logs/config, x-0 log(lightDM x log), greater log, lightDM log/config, and the dmesg after boot.

Logs and configs talked about: https://ptpb.pw/BT3z

Last edited by Fly_out (2019-01-04 22:52:33)

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Re: LightDM fails to display with nvidia proprietary drivers

Please use code, not quote, tags when pasting to the board: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

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Fly_out

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Re: LightDM fails to display with nvidia proprietary drivers

Please use code, not quote, tags when pasting to the board: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

I have fixed it and used ptpb. Sorry about the mess.

Last edited by Fly_out (2019-01-04 22:54:17)

loqs

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Re: LightDM fails to display with nvidia proprietary drivers

Configure either NVIDIA_Optimus or  Bumblebee the current Xorg.conf will not work with the Nvidia GPU.