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2goese

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Registered: 2023-10-18

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[SOLVED] Display won't start

Recently doing full system upgrade, reboot and stuck at startup, here's the log & another one I'm hoping it's not the driver, any help is appreciated

Last edited by 2goese (2026-03-18 07:13:20)

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Display won't start

here are the issues:

[    48.523] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[    48.523] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[    48.523] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[    48.523] (EE) No devices detected.

Mar 18 00:42:42 exe0 systemd-modules-load[409]: Failed to find module 'nvidia_uvm'

Mar 18 00:42:27 archlinux kernel: simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] Registered 1 planes with drm panic
Mar 18 00:42:27 archlinux kernel: [drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
Mar 18 00:42:27 archlinux kernel: fbcon: Deferring console take-over
Mar 18 00:42:27 archlinux kernel: simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device

see here for this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

[    48.517] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  390.157  Wed Oct 12 09:21:41 UTC 2022
[    48.517] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs

i see you are using the 390 drivers which are DKMS which is supposed to be automatic on kernel upgrades, see this page for possible solutions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … le_Support

[    48.510] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

also i see you are using an xorg.conf file which is usually not required and should be removed

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Display won't start

modeset=1 won't cut it - since the 390xx series doesn't support fbdev see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2290011

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2goese

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Registered: 2023-10-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Display won't start

Well for this case it’s the nvidia-390xx-utils package from AUR, and updating it fixed the issue. Thank you for your time