New install, Nvidia proprietary driver black screen

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I installed latest stable Manjaro then i used the utility to install proprietary drivers. After restarting it displays three loading rectangles of Manjaro then screen goes completely black. If i need to reinstall to fix issue how can i prevent this behavior? Maybe the utility installed wrong driver.
My GPU model is Nvidia GTX 1660 Super. Hope you can help about this.

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I had also some black screen issues but it was when I switched back to nouveau drivers…

I’m pretty sure it’s an easy fix but I just don’t really know where to look…

I found this post (there’s also another one linked below) [Fix] System doesn’t boot, boots to a black screen, or stops at a message

I’ll try tomorrow for me…

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
    How to provide good information
    and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…

  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information… (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
    Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

:+1:

P.S. If you enter a bit more details in your profile, we can also see which Desktop Environment you’re using, which CPU/GPU or Kernel, … you have without typing it every time

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Yup: wrong driver for the hardware you have.

  • Print this page so you have it as a reference while in TTY2

  • Log off

  • Switch to TTY2 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2

  • Log in there

  • Execute:

    sudo mhwd --install pci video-nvidia

  • to ensure grub is showing, execute:

     sudo nano --backup /etc/default/grub

  • Change (or add?) the following 3 lines:

    GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

    (3 or higher is fine, add the # before the lines above if those lines are present)

  • I would also remove the

    parameter from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT so you can see what’s going on…

  • Ctrl+X Y Enter to save if there is anything to save

  • If you did save, execute:

     sudo update-grub

  • Reboot

:crossed_fingers:

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