Nvidia updates boot to flashing cursor

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Too late…already running. :roll_eyes:

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Probably no worries… Hope your system is otherwise up to date.

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Yes i had already updated everything except the nvidia.

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So let’s see what happens. :smile:

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Well that is just strange. It worked and this is only the second time i have had an issue with the nvidia drivers.

[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$ inxi -Ga
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia 
           v: 460.56 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1b83 
           class ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: nvidia display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3") 
           s-diag: 583mm (23") 
           Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6") 
           diag: 547mm (21.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56 
           direct render: Yes 
[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$
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So on the other computer which only boots to TTY i do the same from root?

Edit: I will add the -Syu though & I’ll let you know!

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@manuel
I was able to fix the booting on the other system with Nvidia GTX 1650 also by reinstalling nvidia-dkms linux kernel and headers. Very strange that both had the same issue and no one else was reporting any issue with these updates.

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Just guessing, but it might have something to do with the initramfs generation.

I don’t know what the actual problem could be, but I’ve seen that re-installing these sometimes helps. Maybe an update to some headers?

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I noticed this morning that nvidia-settings was an update to match the current install version of nvidia drivers. You would think all of this would be implemented at the same time when they have a newer driver update.