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zombom

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Registered: 2024-01-28

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nouveau driver shows black screen when kms is enabled

I installed arch recently, and I haven't set anything up yet. When I boot into the tty, it just gave me a black screen. When I removed kms from the HOOKS array and regenerated the initramfs, displayed normally. I think I want to use kms, but I can't because of this. What's wrong?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: nouveau driver shows black screen when kms is enabled

First off, if you're using nouveau, you're always using KMS. The kms hook just sets up KMS in early userspace, it's a workaround for DMs starting before the driver is ready. It's not something that's really required.

We'll need a log from a boot that had the problem. Use journalctl's -b option.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: nouveau driver shows black screen when kms is enabled

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouvea … tput_issue is a somewhat common cause, the logs might give a hint about it if it is the case.

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zombom

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Registered: 2024-01-28

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Re: nouveau driver shows black screen when kms is enabled

Nevermind, my question was wrong in multiple ways.