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Help with Mint Xfce black screen on boot (lemmy.ca)

submitted 17 hours ago by usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have an old Sony Vaio laptop that I'm trying to get Mint Xfce to work on. I needed to use compatibility mode when originally booting from the USB in case that's relevant.

The issue I have is that after the mint logo, it's just a black screen. A hard reset and starting in recovery mode will work, but I'd like to not have to go through recovery mode every time.

I'm assuming it's a driver issue with the Nvidia card (GeForce 310M), but the Driver Manager just shows a checkmark saying no drivers needed and nothing else (I'm guessing I should be able to see current drivers or something, anything?).

I've spent the last couple of hours searching in forums and have yet to figure out how to fix it.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Hit ALT+F2 or F3 to see if you get a console. Make sure your GPU drivers are installed and loading with nvidia-smi. Blacklist the Nouveau driver if necessary.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Command not found and then it lists a bunch of options nvidia-utils-### (there's a bunch of different ones with different numbers, some ending in -server).

How would I blacklist the nouveau driver? The driver manager doesn't seem to have any functionality beyond a big checkmark that says says (lies) that everything is good.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

How would I blacklist the nouveau driver?

Create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing the text blacklist nouveau (worked for me on Gentoo and for a friend on Ubuntu) or add a kernel parameter module_blacklist=nouveau to your bootloader. However, if you don't have the correct proprietary driver, that won't help.