New install, Nvidia proprietary driver black screen

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.

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…

:+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.

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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

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.23-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=tr tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_GNOME_210 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 tk: GTK 3.24.27 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M S2H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F50 date: 11/27/2019 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.64 GiB used: 2.13 GiB (13.6%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: N/A microcode: 8701013 cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 43137 
  Speed: 2193 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2193 2: 2195 3: 2196 4: 2198 5: 2196 6: 2195 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni 
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp 
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload 
  vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr 
  xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:21c4 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: nouveau note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root 
  display-ID: 0 resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV168 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: C-Media USB Audio Device type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 0d8c:0012 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.23-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.23 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No Bluetooth data was found. 
Logical:
  Message: No LVM data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.59 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: A-Data model: SU630 size: 447.13 GiB 
  block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 4c12 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Corsair model: Corsair Force LE SSD 
  size: 223.57 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 12.2 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A9E680 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: A560 scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade 
  size: 29.32 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
Partition:
  Message: No Partition data was found. 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: E48CE6CC8CE697F6 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 99 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: D6FE-B9DC 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 446.5 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 7AEC0325EC02DB71 
  ID-5: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 223.57 GiB fs: ntfs label: Yeni Birim 
  uuid: F8443B3B443AFBC6 
  ID-6: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 1000 MiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 7c2594be-ce12-47ca-8c22-a3ab1ed5076f 
  ID-7: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 175.78 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 6a05ec44-b7fb-4fac-b152-84fc8f087d59 
  ID-8: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 size: 244.14 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: b4d7e725-0b8e-4324-96a5-a5c8810e000a 
  ID-9: /dev/sdc4 maj-min: 8:36 size: 3.91 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: e25041dd-a01f-43de-8762-65b979ca0830 
  ID-10: /dev/sdc5 maj-min: 8:37 size: 506.71 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 6AEB3BB4499A3A77 
  ID-11: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 size: 2.57 GiB fs: iso9660 
  label: MANJARO_GNOME_210 uuid: 2021-03-18-19-20-16-00 
  ID-12: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI 
  uuid: 1C47-988F 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: C-Media USB Audio Device type: Audio,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0012 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-4:3 info: SanDisk Cruzer Blade type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 224mA 
  chip-ID: 0781:5567 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-1:2 info: Microdia USB DEVICE type: Keyboard,Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 400mA chip-ID: 0c45:6515 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 5-2:3 info: Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS BLACK V2 type: Mouse,Keyboard 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 264a:1006 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 35.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 926 
Info:
  Processes: 266 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1204 lib: 290 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh 
  v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.03

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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I was typed the inxi command with live usb since i was thinking can’t access tty. I forgot the right key combo. Anyway so i booted to the installed Manjaro. Then i deleted the nvidia driver with mhwd utility then reboot. As expected nouveau driver was working well. Then i reinstalled the nvidia driver. And after login with GDM(lightdm?) same black screen with cursor showed. Then i switched to tty2 guess what, gnome desktop right there.

So current problem tty1 spawns display server in tty2 weirdly.
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Well after reinstalling the GDM my problem is solved. There is some 1 sec delay after login but it works. Probably because it is installed in HDD. Thanks for your interest @Fabby

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