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#1 2019-03-19 12:49:42
- ludog
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[SOLVED] Graphics driver problems with kernel 5.0.2, Dell, Nvidia
I have a Dell XPS 9570 with both an Intel and Nvidia GPU. The Nvidia modules are blacklisted, I boot into a Linux terminal and then run startx manually.
Yesterday I ran pacman -Syu for the first time in a couple of weeks. Then I rebooted, got to grub alright, and afterwards, as normal, saw the messages “loading initial ramdisk” and then several systemctl messages. Midway through the usual list the screen went blank.
Usual list
https://imgur.com/gallery/PJ4BTan
Point at which screen goes blank
https://imgur.com/gallery/GAoAJRW
In other forums I saw the advice of adding “nomodeset” to the grub boot parameters. This worked to get me into the Linux terminal, but then startx fails, with the following log https://imgur.com/gallery/NVd6xHm
How can I stop the screen going blank without preventing Xorg from being able to run?
(Btw, sorry about the photos, I can’t get on a browser from my computer)
Last edited by ludog (2019-03-19 16:44:03)
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#2 2019-03-19 13:16:30
- seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Graphics driver problems with kernel 5.0.2, Dell, Nvidia
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#3 2019-03-19 13:28:16
- ludog
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Re: [SOLVED] Graphics driver problems with kernel 5.0.2, Dell, Nvidia
Thanks for the reply. I'm not certain what the fix being suggested is in those links.
This recommends downgrading to previous kernel version.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61964
This shows an edited script, but I don't know what/where that script is.
https://invent.kde.org/snippets/44
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#4 2019-03-19 13:31:11
- seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Graphics driver problems with kernel 5.0.2, Dell, Nvidia
That's actually a patch to the i915 kernel module. You'll have to recompile the kernel w/ this patch applied to benefit from it.
Alternatively use the lts kernel and wait for a less working-around patch to be applied to the kernel.
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#5 2019-03-19 16:37:32
- ludog
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Re: [SOLVED] Graphics driver problems with kernel 5.0.2, Dell, Nvidia
Great, switching to the LTS kernel solved this. I can now boot and launch Xorg without any problems.
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