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Registered: 2010-11-04

Posts: 31

Blank screen with new NVIDIA driver (256......)

Hey guys,

A while ago I updated my arch system (pacman -Syu, I read the site beforehand), it was working beautifully before I did so. After I updated and rebooted, my computer turned on and gave me a completely black screen after showing a power saving message. After this, I tried reinstalling drivers, nvidia-xconfig, looking at various logs and dmesg output but nothing helped. I checked IRC and no-one had a clue.

I then decided to do a reinstall, thinking that one of my config files must be dead or something, and I backup my home folder regularly anyway. I did a regular install (from internet), got all my config files sorted out then rebooted. Same power saving message. What do I do?

EDIT: I also want to mention that I tried the driver from NVIDIA's website too. Same problem.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: Blank screen with new NVIDIA driver (256......)

Please don't cross post https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ss-Posting

In fact, let me be clearer: posting the same thing four times is tantamount to inviting a ban - don't do it again.

Closing

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