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drabbade

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Registered: 2026-09-16

Posts: 2

no nvidia drivers working for me

I dont know what caused this but after a reboot i got nooutput on my screen right after systemd finnishes booting
i've tried every driver for my gtx1660super switched to an lts kernel and best i could achive is software renderer or getting into the tty with proprietary nvidia drivers. any help?
am also using a VGA to DP cable if it could have been caused by some gpu - monitor handshake

Last edited by drabbade (2026-09-16 17:00:28)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,097

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

Can you boot in from the Arch installation media and post the system journal from a boot with the issue?

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 814

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

What driver did you use before this happened?
Is this single GPU on your system?
Do you use X11 or Wayland? Display manager?
Can you switch to VT with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login there or login remotely and post journal?

drabbade

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Registered: 2026-09-16

Posts: 2

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

i used nvidia-open when that happened
yes its the only gpu and both displays servers dont work but generally i cant even see the tty
will post journal a bit later
my DM is ly

Last edited by drabbade (2026-09-16 17:54:41)

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 814

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

i got nooutput on my screen right after systemd finnishes booting
...
but generally i cant even see the tty

So on which boot stage output disappears? In initramfs while systemd didn't finish booting yet or after systemd finished initialization and started display manager?
Does monitor show no signal and turns off or remains active with blank screen? Is it no display output or system freezes and doesn't respond at all?
As suggested above, if you can't event reach console then best option would be to boot with live ISO, chroot into your system and analyze journal.
Also check whether you have modeset=1 in nvidia_drm module options or nvidia_drm.modeset=1 in kernel command line.

uuxxi

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Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 1

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

Hello,

can you press <shift> <alt> <F4> and log in?

If yes, can you look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

nvidia-open 615.71.09-6 does not work on my computer together with kernel 7.2.8-arch1-2. It comes to the greeter and switches off the screen.

[  1437.130] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[  1437.130] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  1437.130] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[  1437.130] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  1437.130] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/ar/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  1437.130] (EE) 
[  1437.151] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Switching to the LTS version works and versions before worked as well. I guess there is some mismatch in this version.
I made a USB stick, with the latest archlinux, and it stopped doing things, when loading the nvidia driver.

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,129

Re: no nvidia drivers working for me

Please post your entire Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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