NVIDIA Drivers for GPU makes screen black

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So the point is when I’m trying to install drivers for GeForce 3060 Ti GDDR6X and reboot PC, screen becomes black.

Worst thing in it is that I tried other distros(Debian, Mint, Fedora) and nothing changed, but on Windows 10 all was fine.

To be honest my knowledge in things like this is minimal, I tried to ask on other forums but nothing helped.

GPU’s fans are not working. System monitor don’t see GPU. $ neofetch can detect GPU. My GPU should have supported drivers for Linux.

If you think you can help and need additional information just ask for it.

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Can you post the system info - inxi -Fza ?
Does the system work with the nouveau driver ?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.12.12-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
    root=UUID=9a54612c-a592-4e56-b91d-f36efb3ec576 rw quiet splash
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.10.0
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: PRO B660M-E DDR4 (MS-7D46) v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: 2.A0 date: 01/09/2023
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 level: v3 note: check built: 2021+
    process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151) stepping: 2
    microcode: 0x37
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 6 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 480 KiB desc: d-6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 7.5 MiB
    desc: 6x1.2 MiB L3: 18 MiB desc: 1x18 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4349 min/max: 800/4400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 4349 2: 4349 3: 4349 4: 4349 5: 4349 6: 4349
    7: 4349 8: 4349 9: 4349 10: 4349 11: 4349 12: 4349 bogomips: 59916
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
    conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X] driver: nouveau
    v: kernel non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01;
    EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:24c9 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: Acer XF253Q serial: <filter>
    built: 2022 res: N/A dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 543x302mm (21.38x11.89")
    diag: 621mm (24.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
    drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.3.4-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NV174 device-ID: 10de:24c9 memory: 7.8 GiB
    unified: no
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 4 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (NVK GA104) driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:24c9
    surfaces: xcb,xlib
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.12-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:1a1d class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.64 TiB used: 30.83 GiB (0.6%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: A-Data model: LEGEND 960
    size: 3.73 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: A200V9QD temp: 45.9 C
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10EZEX-08RKKA0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 3.73 TiB size: 3.67 TiB (98.40%) used: 30.83 GiB (0.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.47 GiB used: 3.85 GiB (24.9%)
  Processes: 307 Power: uptime: 35m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.16 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1272 libs: 368 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
    pkgs: 0 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.37
    running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37

I got no clue what is nouveau driver but I will try to find out

Edit: Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X] driver: nouveau

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You can remove the Nvidia driver driver with the settings manager.

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I got no NVIDIA drivers right now

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Install a swap parition or a swap file, since there is only 16GB available.

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And again I got no clue what is swap partition, but after I will do it, what should I do next?

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can you paste the output from
mhwd -li -d
please?

also: this page might be helpful:

also maybe this:

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NAME:        video-linux
   ATTACHED:    PCI
   VERSION:     2024.05.06
   INFO:        Standard open source drivers.
   PRIORITY:    2
   FREEDRIVER:  true
   DEPENDS:     -
   CONFLICTS:   -
   CLASSIDS:    0300 0380 0302 
   VENDORIDS:   1002 8086 10de
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thanks.
installed is the “default grafic driver” that might not work with your GPU

You could try to use the manjaro settings manager to install the “non open” driver for your GPU.
Reboot and press thumbs

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Something tells me nothing good will happen but I will try, thanks

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Just a heads up…

The inxi parameter -F (or --full) is deprecated. Though it may still work for the time being, at some point it will likely be removed altogether.

The following command is generally preferred;

inxi --filter --verbosity=8

or the short form:

inxi -zv8

Regards.

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I don’t know how, but it worked. Why it never worked on Debian and Ubuntu, why drivers never worked with terminal on Manjaro :skull:

Thanks you, without drivers I would just moved to Windows…

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If I were to guess, I’d say you were doing something wrong, but I suppose we’ll never know. :smile_cat:

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