Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver
 

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

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Ionuț

Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver
 

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







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Ionuț

Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver
 

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 .