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netnoob44

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Registered: 2020-08-31

Posts: 8

(solved) black screen after nvidia driver install

Hi, I am new to Arch, have installed a bootable arch system following the available documentation. But I have a problem.

Some information about my system ...
-an ivy bridge board (intel i7 3770)
-arch installed in legacy/bios/csm mode, disks are GPT
- gpu is a gtx 1060 (using the only available hdmi port)
- storage device is a standard hard drive
- using syslinux as a bootloader

I then installed the xorg set, as well as nvidia, lib32-nvidia-utils and nvidia-utils

For use with my nvidia GPU, a gtx 1060

I do not have a DE or a DM of any kind installed, I have not set X to start auotmaticly, I have had no interaction with x so far other than instaling it.

Following a reboot after installing nvidia, lib32-nvidia-utils and nvidia-utils, my system is a lit, black screen.  It seems to happen right after it modesets

I cannot visibly switch ttys, but I am able to blindly sign in to do something like transfer logs or start ssh, which is what I am doing now.

output of pacman -Q (a list of packages): https://dpaste.com/D77RCMBVC.txt
output of journalctl (file was huge, compressed and uploaded somewhere) https://files.catbox.moe/dpw6eg.gz

Please note the logs may contain my (attempts) to sign in via ssh or me failing to configure a ftp daemon.

I can find many instances of users experiencing black screen on arch, but many of them are related to GDM or their DE. I have none of these things - i boot to a console

EDIT: The issue has been resolved by blacklisting the intel iGPU https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … grated_GPU

Thanks

Last edited by netnoob44 (2020-08-31 08:02:08)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,371

Re: (solved) black screen after nvidia driver install

Try explicitly enabling nvidia's modesetting support by adding

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

to your kernel parameters, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … de_setting as well.

netnoob44

Member

Registered: 2020-08-31

Posts: 8

Re: (solved) black screen after nvidia driver install

I will try this maybe I ca nat least have my high console resolution back

Escarina

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Registered: 2020-03-07

Posts: 4

Re: (solved) black screen after nvidia driver install

with nvidia cards you should say goodbye to a high res tty ...sadly
as far as i know it only works with grub and the right parameters set there 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … resolution

greetings Esca