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giraffeisthier

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Registered: 2020-05-21

Posts: 6

Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

Following the instructions on the wiki, I attempted to set up my GeForce GT 755M.

In short, I didn't find my card on the legacy card list, so I installed the nvidia package using yay and rebooted. I then followed the configuration instructions and added added/modified the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file to read

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Nvidia Card"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName "GeForce GT 755M"
EndSection

I rebooted again and got to a black screen after the "Starting version 245.5-2-arch" message. I can get to tty2, so I was able to try to troubleshooting steps in the NVIDIA Troubleshooting page.

Again, in short, I prepended

xrandr --auto

to my xinitrc. I added the

rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1

kernel parameter to /etc/default/grub as

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1"

I also added the nvidia module to my mkinitcpio config file by adding to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file as

MODULES=(nvidia)

. I then generated the image using

sudo mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/linux-custom.img

.
I also have Intel integrated graphics, so I tried creating and modifying the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file with

install i915 /usr/bin/false
install intel_agp /usr/bin/false

No success unfortunately. Any help is much appreciated!

Last edited by giraffeisthier (2020-05-29 20:32:17)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,063

Re: Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

Please post the output of dmesg and the contents of Xorg.log.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 3832/en-us does list the GeForce GT 755M.
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 9360/en-us does not.  So there is a discrepancy between the drivers the current release supports and those listed as legacy.

giraffeisthier

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Registered: 2020-05-21

Posts: 6

Re: Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

dmesg

Xorg.0.log

Xorg.1.log

I'm not entirely sure why there are two log files for Xorg. Would that be a potential issue?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

It appears you have a hybrid system where the display is attached to the integrated GPU.  The /etc/X11/xorg.conf generated by nvidia-xconfig does not support that.  Please see NVIDIA_Optimus.

giraffeisthier

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Registered: 2020-05-21

Posts: 6

Re: Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

Gotcha. I tried setting up bumblebee, but I'm still getting a black screen at the same point. I check the service, and bumblebee is running. I also undid all of the changes I had made previously to try to fix the black screen issue. Any ideas?

giraffeisthier

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Registered: 2020-05-21

Posts: 6

Re: Black Screen on Reboot after NVIDIA driver Installation

I realised I hadn't reverted the blacklist, and fixing that got my graphics to work again!

Bumblebee still isn't working though. When I try to start the service, it doesn't complain, but when I check its status, it says that executing /usr/bin/bumblebeed failed. Not even quite sure where to look for the log here. Any ideas or info I could provide?