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LinearView88

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Registered: 2021-03-28

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[SOLVED] Occasionally getting a black screen after boot

When I boot my system, roughly 50% of the time I see a black screen instead of a display manager. I tried uninstalling my display manager and using the login shell, but the issue persists. I'm able to log in and start my X session while the screen is black, so it seems like some kind of display issues. I'm using proprietary NVIDIA drivers; assuming this has something to do with KMS?

Journalctl -b-1 for a boot where this did not happen: https://0x0.st/XM0V.txt

Last edited by LinearView88 (2024-07-22 17:07:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Occasionally getting a black screen after boot

That's the simpledrm device stealing the terminal framebuffer away from the nvidia driver. Enable KMS on the nvidia driver, but use the commandline parameter method (

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

via kernel parameters which has the added side effect of killing simpledrm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

LinearView88

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Registered: 2021-03-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Occasionally getting a black screen after boot

That seems to have done the trick. Thanks V1del!

I did notice, however, a few new ACPI warnings and errors once I made the change:

Jul 12 11:29:04 thumper kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB.NPCF._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20230628/nsarguments-61)
Jul 12 11:29:04 doriath kernel: ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20230628/nsarguments-61)
Jul 12 11:29:04 thumper kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PEGP.GPS.NVD1], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-330)
Jul 12 11:29:04 thumper kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PEGP.GPS due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)
Jul 12 11:29:04 thumper kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP0.PEGP._DSM due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psparse-529)

Should I be worried?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Occasionally getting a black screen after boot

Not w/o further symptoms - those ACPI errors are common because board vendors implement acpi by poking around until windows boots. specs are for losers!

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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