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Magbed

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Black screen with nvidia-440.64-9

Upgrading to newest nvidia driver gave me a black screen. Checking logs Xorg logs gives.

Downgrading to nvidia-440.64.8 solves the issue.

[    10.401] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[    10.401] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[    10.401] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[    10.401] (EE) No devices detected.
[    10.401] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    10.401] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    10.401] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
   at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    10.401] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    10.401] (EE) 
[    10.403] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Last edited by Magbed (2020-04-01 09:37:51)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,738

Re: [SOLVED] Black screen with nvidia-440.64-9

That means your kernel is outdated in comparison to the nvidia module version. The versions in the outputs of

pacman -Q linux
uname -a

must match (and should be 5.5.13-arch2 on a properly updated system). This most often happens because you didn't have your boot partition mounted during the kernel update, or maybe because your mirror didn't yet sync the kernel packages. Make sure you use up to date mirrors. On updating your system you should get nvidia-440.64-9 and linux  5.5.13-arch2

Last edited by V1del (2020-04-01 09:11:48)

Magbed

Member

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Black screen with nvidia-440.64-9

Got it. Thanks for the explanation.

I was using reflector to keep mirrorlist up to date. But it seems that is selecting some mirrors that are not so quick at syncing.

Selecting a different mirror is offering me the newest linux kernel that you mention. Thanks again.