[arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver
Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright. To be absolutely sure that it is not caused by anything in my system, i installed arch again on to a new partition and installed the packages. Same results. I searched the bug tracker but found nothing.Is anybody experiencing the same thing ? My system: Vga:VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
On 10/25/2010 04:40 PM, Partha Chowdhury wrote:
Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright.
To be absolutely sure that it is not caused by anything in my system, i installed arch again on to a new partition and installed the packages. Same results.
I searched the bug tracker but found nothing.Is anybody experiencing the same thing ?
My system: Vga:VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs. take a look yourself: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 -- Ionuț
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs.
I don't have this problem so saying it is "only" a bug of the driver sounds too easy for me. Perhaps it would be better if people with this problem compare their configurations.
take a look yourself: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
And where is one of this reports? Sorry, but posting no url would be better in this case.-) See you, Attila
On 10/25/2010 07:04 PM, Attila wrote:
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs.
I don't have this problem so saying it is "only" a bug of the driver sounds too easy for me. Perhaps it would be better if people with this problem compare their configurations.
maybe you misunderstood me or i suck at explanations. Not all cards are affected and even the same chipsets. In some situations, no idea what are those, the new nvidia driver doesn't work. for example there is one guy with sony vaio laptop in the forum which has 8400 GT and has black screen. Others that have 84000 GT doesn't have this issue.
take a look yourself: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
And where is one of this reports? Sorry, but posting no url would be better in this case.-)
i'm too lazy to search for black screen now but is not on the front page as this issue was reported since the beta
-- Ionuț
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 22:24 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
maybe you misunderstood me or i suck at explanations. Not all cards are affected and even the same chipsets. In some situations, no idea what are those, the new nvidia driver doesn't work.
for example there is one guy with sony vaio laptop in the forum which has 8400 GT and has black screen. Others that have 84000 GT doesn't have this issue
Okay, if this is the hardware than the only thing what i can help is to say that this cards makes no problem for me: 6200, 7600GS, G210 and GT220. But this is not good because the 8400 is a nice card und should be supported from nvidia in a better way.
i'm too lazy to search for black screen now but is not on the front page as this issue was reported since the beta
I was hoping you have the link because for using the search function of the nv forum i even have to search my glasses.-) See you, Attila
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:24, Ionuț Bîru
On 10/25/2010 07:04 PM, Attila wrote:
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs.
I don't have this problem so saying it is "only" a bug of the driver sounds too easy for me. Perhaps it would be better if people with this problem compare their configurations.
maybe you misunderstood me or i suck at explanations. Not all cards are affected and even the same chipsets. In some situations, no idea what are those, the new nvidia driver doesn't work.
for example there is one guy with sony vaio laptop in the forum which has 8400 GT and has black screen. Others that have 84000 GT doesn't have this issue.
take a look yourself: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
And where is one of this reports? Sorry, but posting no url would be better in this case.-)
i'm too lazy to search for black screen now but is not on the front page as this issue was reported since the beta
-- Ionuț
I don't know if this is related or not. I'm not having any problems with desktop cards and the latest drivers, but I've had problems with integrated graphics on both laptops and desktops. Seems some laptop manufacturers tweak the video drivers and only their drivers will work you can't install the drivers from nVidia or ATI. I've also had integrated video on a desktop board, IICR it was an nforce4, that the nVidia drivers (the recommended drivers) wouldn't recognize at all. After 3 days of trying to correct the problem, I finally gave up on the integrated graphics and purchased and add on card. I hope this isn't too far off topic, but thought it might give you somewhere else to look for the problem. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
Thank you everyone for your replies.
From last night, I have tried different versions of kernel + Nvidia driver to pinpoint the bug, and the culprit is the whole 260.x.x series drivers. Every driver from 180,195 and 256 series works fine on any kernel version. but the 260.19.04,260.19.06,260.19.12 does not work with any combination.Guess the 260 series does not like the 8400GS card (:.
On searching the nvidia forum, i see many regressions with 260 series drivers.I use the nvidia solely for VDPAU otherwise i can use the intregated card with nv or nouveau and kick the last closed-source out of my box .
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Attila
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Ionuț Bîru
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Myra Nelson
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Partha Chowdhury