screen blank on bootup on using nvidia driver

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This is the 2nd blank screen bootup in 1 week. The first was due to the kernel update 5.18.9-2-default
I corrected this by reverting to using the older kernel and I deleted the 5.18.9-2-default file manually and edit the boot menu.

However with the latest update I think the NVidia driver was update and now my screen is blank.
I am able to login blindly, after which I only the mouse cursor appears. My shortcut work to open konsole, which I can type blindly to do a reboot.

I am unable to switch using ctrl + alt + fn keys to see a console. I’ve tired all the function keys and I can’t get to a console screen.

So how can I boot into some recovery mode? if I select this option from the boot menu I still get to a blank screen.

If I am able to somehow get to the console screen, how would I then revert back to the previous nvidia driver that was working?

2

Hi
I’m assuming your using the nvidia rpms? What driver version are you using? Is the driver being rebuilt or winding up in weak-updates;


/sbin/modinfo nvidia | grep filename:

filename:       /lib/modules/5.18.11-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

I use the hardway here with the 515.57 oss driver and all good…


 nvidia-smi 
Wed Jul 20 16:42:31 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.57       Driver Version: 515.57       CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA T400         Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 38%   42C    P8    N/A /  31W |      6MiB /  2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
3

I found a workaround solution in this post: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/572764-No-login-screen-since-kernel-5-18-9-2

Add nosimplefb=1 to your kernel command line in grub (press e in your bootloader during boot).

I am using the nVidia software repository which I added.

When NVidia got updated, I did see the post install script ran.

$ /sbin/modinfo nvidia | grep filename:
**filename:**       /lib/modules/5.18.11-1-default/updates/nvidia.ko


$ nvidia-smi  
Wed Jul 20 17:48:42 2022        
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.57       Driver Version: 515.57       CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:29:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   53C    P8    39W / 320W |    932MiB / 10240MiB |     10%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2452      G   /usr/bin/Xorg.bin                 475MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2865      G   /usr/bin/kwin_x11                 132MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2877      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell               76MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3133      G   ...akonadi_archivemail_agent        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3141      G   .../akonadi_mailfilter_agent        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3146      G   ...n/akonadi_sendlater_agent        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3147      G   ...nadi_unifiedmailbox_agent        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3667      G   ...254420986851600377,131072      225MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+