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#1 2024-05-23 01:24:28

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NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Had a working system with Quadro K620 connected to one monitor. Wanting to have two monitors, I tried using my old AMD graphics since it has two DVIs, a HDMI and a Displayport.  The NVidia only have a DVI and a Displayport. My monitors doesn't have displayport.

After learning that I will not be able to install a proprietary driver because of how old it is, I ended up placing the NVidia card back, but now I get a black screen. Upon checking the xorg.0.log, I can see the libglx.so, nvidia_drv.so and libglxserver_nvidia.so loaded but when it gets to line 329 of the log file it says:

[125.980] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Deleting GPU-0

I've tried looking at all the logs to find some clue but I'm not getting any luck. I know the driver still supports my old card and I don't see any (EE) errors on the log file

Any clues? I have boron installed. Thank you.

P.S. nouveau is blacklisted and to be sure it doesn't take over the control of the card, I moved the nouveau_drv.so from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to a different folder.

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#2 2024-05-23 02:28:49

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

So, I have puppy linux running on the same system. Puppy, like Bunsenlab is also using the 525.147.05 nvidia driver and I'm using Puppy making this post. I checked the xorg.0.log of Puppy and what caught my attention are the lines 14.045. For some reason it's detecting the monitor but Bunsenlab doesn't. What would cause this?

[    13.911] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro K620 (GM107GL-A) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[    13.911] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 2097152 kBytes
[    13.911] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 82.07.7a.00.13
[    13.911] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[    13.955] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-0: disconnected
[    13.955] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[    13.955] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[    14.045] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): ViewSonic VX2452 Series (DFP-0): connected
[    14.045] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): ViewSonic VX2452 Series (DFP-0): Internal TMDS
[    14.045] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): ViewSonic VX2452 Series (DFP-0): 340.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

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#3 2024-05-24 12:10:17

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Still searching for a solution...

Meanwhile, here's more from xorg.0.log: (this is from bunsenlabs log file)

[     5.915] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro K620 (GM107GL-A) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[     5.915] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 2097152 kBytes
[     5.915] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 82.07.7a.00.13
[     5.915] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[     5.916] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
[     5.916] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "NULL"
[     5.916] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
[     5.916] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation.
[     5.916] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
[     5.916] (II) NVIDIA: Reserving 6144.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory
[     5.916] (II) NVIDIA:     access.
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     configuration option may not be set correctly.  When the
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications.  For
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[     5.919] (II) NVIDIA(0):     Config Options in the README.
[     5.938] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "NULL"

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#4 2024-05-24 15:20:16

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Is that after an update or on a fresh install @jp734 !

Some had issues with the 6.1.0-18-amd64 kernel

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/d … n/282473/2

Also;make shure that you have this Repo in there; (unless you already have it in)

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free contrib non-free-firmware

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#5 2024-05-24 15:40:26

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

& you should ve this driver also,if not installed already;

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 100/en-us/


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#6 2024-05-24 16:24:45

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Hey altman

Thanks for the reply. This is not a fresh install. Been using it for a while and I honestly can't remember the last time I updated it. I'm downloading the driver from NVidia now and it's the 550.78 version per their recommendation. My only challenge now is how to get to console coz all I get is black screen.

It used to work. Not really sure what would cause it from trying to switch video cards

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#7 2024-05-24 18:32:51

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

Hey altman

Thanks for the reply. This is not a fresh install. Been using it for a while and I honestly can't remember the last time I updated it. I'm downloading the driver from NVidia now and it's the 550.78 version per their recommendation. My only challenge now is how to get to console coz all I get is black screen.

It used to work. Not really sure what would cause it from trying to switch video cards

Can you move to another tty with ctrl+alt+f3?


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#8 2024-05-24 19:38:26

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

Hey altman

Thanks for the reply. This is not a fresh install. Been using it for a while and I honestly can't remember the last time I updated it. I'm downloading the driver from NVidia now and it's the 550.78 version per their recommendation. My only challenge now is how to get to console coz all I get is black screen.

It used to work. Not really sure what would cause it from trying to switch video cards

No problem mate, hope it will work, I would try what @Dobbie stated above as for the tty


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#9 2024-05-24 19:44:19

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

I would also check that link, might help, never know;

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154885


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#10 2024-05-24 20:47:17

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

Any clues? I have boron installed. Thank you.

How do you normally log in; with LightDM?
LightDM may be the problem (since Puppy works; good ol' Puppy).

Try switching to a different tty like @Dobbie03 recommended. If you can log into that tty, disable LightDM service and reboot. Hopefully you can log into a tty and then get to the window manager (Openbox?) with startx.

You'll want the LightDM service disabled anyway if you plan to install the driver from the Nvidia site (worked better that way for me last time I had to use Nvidia drivers).


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#11 2024-05-24 21:16:35

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Thanks guys. I've been reading about LightDM. Hopefully that's the problem and CTL+ALT+F3 works. If I have to install the latest driver from NVidia, what are the packages I need to install to build? (dev + kernel)

Will check the link from altman as well.

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#12 2024-05-24 21:22:03

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

I think there is a How To for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers on this form. Us the search function.


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#13 2024-05-25 02:35:05

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

^ Here's a very messy thread that eventually got marked [SOLVED]...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8834


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#14 2024-05-25 03:34:14

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

I was really hoping CTRL+ALT+F3 will get me to console but it also did not work. Without even a console, there's really nothing I could do, EXCEPT... Puppy is working. So, using Puppy, I thought of finding all the files that blacklisted nouveau and edit all of them, save then reboot. And hallelujah... IT WORKED!

So, I have my screen back using nouveau and will just re-install NVidia proprietary driver BUT will enjoy the win for a while.

Thanks to everyone!

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#15 2024-05-25 04:25:01

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Changing the OP title to [RESOLVED], until you post back say your using a(n) Nvidia driver.


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#16 2024-05-25 09:09:38

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

I was really hoping CTRL+ALT+F3 will get me to console but it also did not work. Without even a console, there's really nothing I could do, EXCEPT... Puppy is working. So, using Puppy, I thought of finding all the files that blacklisted nouveau and edit all of them, save then reboot. And hallelujah... IT WORKED!

So, I have my screen back using nouveau and will just re-install NVidia proprietary driver BUT will enjoy the win for a while.

Thanks to everyone!

Glad that you found out why it didn t work.


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#17 2024-05-29 18:47:37

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

This is solved. Reinstalled NVidia using Synaptic Package Manager and everything is working fine.

Have another issue but will start a new topic.

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#18 2024-05-29 19:47:49

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

This is solved. Reinstalled NVidia using Synaptic Package Manager and everything is working fine.

Have another issue but will start a new topic.

Hey that s cool !

Easily done with Synatic, a surprise to me, I would ve tought of having to install fron NVidia.


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#19 2024-05-29 20:58:07

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

Yeah. It's what I used originally and never had any problem until I switched cards. It's not the latest driver though. NVidia has 550.78 version and Synaptic has the 525 but it works.

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#20 2024-05-30 11:22:18

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Re: NVidia - Black Screen [SOLVED]

jp734 wrote:

Yeah. It's what I used originally and never had any problem until I switched cards. It's not the latest driver though. NVidia has 550.78 version and Synaptic has the 525 but it works.

Good, the mean thing is that it s working.


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