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neopium

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Registered: 2019-05-02

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[SOLVED] Black screen after upgrading graphics card and monitor

Hi everyone,

I bought a new monitor (LG 32GS95UV-B) and a new graphics card (NVidia 5070 Ti).

When I boot my computer on Arch Linux, I have a black screen...

I have a live USB running Arch, so I booted on the drive, arch-chroot'ed to make a full system update, but it still does not work... What should I do next ?

When I type `xrandr --listmonitors`, I have a can't open display message.

Last edited by neopium (2025-07-18 10:37:39)

neopium

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Registered: 2019-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Black screen after upgrading graphics card and monitor

I know you will want more information on my configuration, but I don't know which to provide...

neopium

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Registered: 2019-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Black screen after upgrading graphics card and monitor

Ok, progress is being made ;-)

I could access the TTY console withn ctrl + F2. I typed :

journalctl -b -p err

This is the error message I get : "The NVidia GPU installed in this system requires use of the NVIDIA open kernel modules"... How do I do that?

neopium

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Registered: 2019-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Black screen after upgrading graphics card and monitor

I found the solution by following those steps: https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvid … tion-guide

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Black screen after upgrading graphics card and monitor

Next time please make sure to check the wiki before possibly unmaintained 3rd party guides: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

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