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Adam01

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Registered: 2021-05-16

Posts: 3

Black screen after install of nvidia-340xx driver

Hello,

I have a Macbook pro with a GeForce 9400M and on boot I had the message:
"The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU installed in this system is supported through the NVIDIA 340.xx Legagy drivers. Please visit http://nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more information."

So I installed the driver through the AUR package.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-340xx-utils.git
makepkg -si

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-340xx.git
makepkg -si

But now I get a black screen on boot.

I know how to boot on single mode to get the console, but on single mode I have no network and can't install any new package.

What could I do to go back to the default driver?

Thanks,
Vincent.

Last edited by Adam01 (2021-05-16 10:47:08)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,998

Re: Black screen after install of nvidia-340xx driver

See the 2nd link in my signature.
Also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … ed_drivers

Nvidia no longer supports drivers for your card. This means that these drivers do not support the current Xorg version

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