Re: Black screen after fresh install of buster
Daniel Harris composed on 2019-07-11 15:39 (UTC+0100):
> Need some help. My screen goes black if login to any other desktop
> environment other than Gnome, even gnome-xorg only shows a black screen.
> I have a nvidia graphics card but i am only using standard debian, no
> non-free repos.
> Can anybody help as i have not played around with the os so not sure how to
> debug this.
Please share Xorg.0.log from an attempted Xorg session, either in /var/log/ or in
~/.local/share/xorg/. If this is a problem, at least share content of
/proc/cmdline, which the log includes.
How old is your NVidia/what model? Output from 'inxi -GxxS' in Gnome would do for
this. A very new model might require a non-FOSS driver from NVidia.
If xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, try installing it. If it is not, try
purging it.
It may be that you don't have non-free repos installed, and need to in order to
obtain firmware your NVidia requires.
It's possible disabling plymouth could impact this. Either purge it, or add
plymouth.enable=0 to Grub's linux line to find out.
Which installation type do you have, legacy/MBR, or UEFI?
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