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qwe8013

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Registered: 2020-04-08

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[Solved] Screen blinking

I have computer with intel core i7 processor and GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. I want to install arch linux on it. I have booted from arch live usb. But after I execute command "fdisk -l" (and it outputs correct result), picture on monitor starts to disappear for a few seconds and returns again and so it goes on continuously. Why it happens?

Last edited by qwe8013 (2020-10-28 00:17:22)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Screen blinking

Try passing "video=1024x768" or "nomodeset" to the kernel parameters.
If you've a high resolution monitor, nouveau might choke or the signal exceeds the cable capacity (because no signal lowering techniques are used)

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qwe8013

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Re: [Solved] Screen blinking

"nomodeset" helped.

seth

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Re: [Solved] Screen blinking

nb. that you won't get a graphical display server w/ nomodeset, but I hope you won't need it w/ the nvidia blob, but also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=259936
(Use the lts kernel for the time being)

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