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FS#67532 - [nvidia] 450.57 breaks text mode terminals

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by stefan (stefan1) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 09:13 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 13 August 2020, 04:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When switching from an X session to another tty (pressing Alt-F2), the screen turns black, and off after a few seconds, as if there would be no signal at all.

Instead, I expected to see a text-based login, wich I usually use to log in as another user and start another X session.

Actually, this text terminal seems to be functional, i.e., when I blindly type a username, password, and `startx`, then an X session comes up. After terminating X, the screen is black again.

I suspect nvidia to be the culprit, because the issue appeared after the update of package `nvidia` from 440.100-3 to 450.57-1, and is still present with 450.57-6.

For me, the problem occurs with a GeForce GTX 1060, and it has been confirmed by another user with a GeForce GT 1030.

More discussion is here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=257347
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 04:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 19:18 GMT
Sorry, it really doesn't appear like I can do anything here. We can only fix rough packaging problems but everything else is binary blob country.

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