Balck screen with Nvidia
by vladimir1986 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5S194)
Hey there, I would love if someone can find a fix for this annoying problem:
Every time I try to startx on my laptop (with a Quadro M2000M), I just get a black screen. You can actually find the exact same problem here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVI..._at_X_shutdown, but none of the solutions work.
So far I have KDE5 installed with SDDM, and I3. KDE5 always worked (I am using the X11 version, not wayland). I3 is the one who gets a black screen if I use Startx. Using SDDM makes it work (but my goal was to avoid using a graphic manager to start X. Tried other ones, like xdm, but I get a black screen)
I am quite sure It is a Nvidia driver issue, because I have other partitions with different Linux distros and FreeBSD, and using Nouveau I have 0 problems. The thing is that I am sort of using this Arch partition to play videogames, so I want to be able to use the full potential of my GPU.
BTW. I get no warnings: X server starts fine and I can ssh into my system. It is just that I silently get a black screen.
Every time I try to startx on my laptop (with a Quadro M2000M), I just get a black screen. You can actually find the exact same problem here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVI..._at_X_shutdown, but none of the solutions work.
So far I have KDE5 installed with SDDM, and I3. KDE5 always worked (I am using the X11 version, not wayland). I3 is the one who gets a black screen if I use Startx. Using SDDM makes it work (but my goal was to avoid using a graphic manager to start X. Tried other ones, like xdm, but I get a black screen)
I am quite sure It is a Nvidia driver issue, because I have other partitions with different Linux distros and FreeBSD, and using Nouveau I have 0 problems. The thing is that I am sort of using this Arch partition to play videogames, so I want to be able to use the full potential of my GPU.
BTW. I get no warnings: X server starts fine and I can ssh into my system. It is just that I silently get a black screen.