Nvidia installer leaves me with a black screen

[roadhazard]

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

Dumb question: So, if I install both Nvidia drivers (mainline and LTS) and have both kernels installed (mainline and LTS), if I boot the LTS kernel, the LTS Nvidia drivers get loaded and if I boot the mainline Linux kernel, the mainline Nvidia drivers get loaded?

Even with a rolling distro, I’d like to build in a bit of stability. Unless it’s needed for something, I prefer LTS kernels and LTS Nvidia drivers. But I see what you’re saying… guess I’ll nuke the mainline kernel and drivers and roll with LTS.

… unless there’s some pressing reason I should really use mainline kernel and mainline Nvidia drivers?

[joekamprad]

a second kernel is also a possible bootable option if there is something wrong with the other one

[roadhazard]

Hahahaha… figures.

There a way to set some sort of limit so that I always have…say… 4 of the latest kernels and always the LTS one? Example:

Kernel v1.1
Kernel v1.2
Kernel v1.3
Kernel v1.4
Kernel v1 LTS

…days later:

Kernel v1.5
Kernel v1.6
Kernel v1.7
Kernel v1.8
Kernel v1 LTS

(All the other versions are swept away yet I still retain the LTS Kernel)

[joekamprad]

boy… it is a rolling release holding back the kernel will lead to issues you do not want… there are packages needs to be build against running kernel… if you want something like this install linux-hardened is also in extra (and also linux-hardened-headers) so you will have 3 different kernels to choose from…

[roadhazard]

That scared me … I’ll bow to your Linux knowledge and stick with the mainline kernel.

[Red]

This issue found me as I updated the drivers and this solution worked for me:

Dual gpu nvidia/intel

HI! I had exactly the same problem. I installed Endevour OS to an old laptop which originally used Optimus drivers to switch automatically. I tried the NVIDIA installer with bumblebee, but it did not worked very well. I solved the problem by installing optimus-manager. it is at the end link This allows you to choose which card to use, and by default uses the Intel so you to avoid the black screen. Although, I wanted to use the NVIDIA drivers, but there seems to be a conflict between the nouv…

As soon as I installed the bumblebee drivers, I blacklisted noveau, disabled bumblebee and restarted. Afterwards, I set up Optimus and everything is working as it should (so far).