FS#50057 - [nvidia] startx and blank screen with latest nvidia drivers

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ebrahim Azarisooreh (eazar001) - Friday, 15 July 2016, 23:41 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 15 August 2016, 20:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

With this latest release of the NVIDIA drivers, Arch Linux boots up and loads `startx` with a black screen.
I'm currently using xmonad wm, but can also reproduce this issue with jwm as well.

Additional info:
* NVIDIA version 367.35-1
* Xmonad 0.12

NOTE: When I try to login to tty2 with CTRL+ALT+F2, and then go back to the session with the blank screen (tty1)
by doing CTRL+ALT+F1 afterwards, I'm able to see my Xmonad desktop. So clearly the WM started up correctly in
the background, it just wasn't visible. I've only received this issue with this vsn 367.35-1


Steps to reproduce:
1) Install nvidia driver 367.35-1
2) reboot arch linux
3) see blank screen after startx is executed (i.e. from ~/.xinitrc)
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Monday, 15 August 2016, 20:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Ebrahim Azarisooreh (eazar001) - Friday, 15 July 2016, 23:44 GMT
Sorry, I forgot to enter bug report summary. `startx and blank screen with latest nvidia drivers` should be sufficient.
Comment by Darek (blablo) - Saturday, 16 July 2016, 06:50 GMT Comment by Ebrahim Azarisooreh (eazar001) - Saturday, 16 July 2016, 06:57 GMT
Ah okay, great so something really does appear to be wrong with these latest drivers. I'll keep my nvidia drivers downgraded until the next release then. Thanks for post!
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 15 August 2016, 20:49 GMT
Well, no point tracking an upstream bug that we can't fix really. Closing unless there is a workaround. Please reopen in that case.

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