Screen messes up when initializing graphics card on boot (NVIDIA GTX 1060)

KhalidSlack · 09-04-2020, 06:07 PM

I've installed Slackware latest successfully on an Acer all in one desktop machine. I tried tonight to install on my workhorse machine but I'm facing an issue with the graphics on the terminal during boot.

I can install successfully, but then when it boots to login I get a stream of text as usual it suddenly freezes and half of the screen (lower half) is all messed up. Unreadable. The top half of the screen remains frozen.

I've managed to login and run startx but nothing happens and I'm unable to read the output.

The top half of the screen gives me a clue as to what is happening. The frozen part of the screen shows it happens just after initializing the graphics card. I use an NVIDIA GTX 1060.

So the question now is how can get this to work? I don't have any other HDMI or VGA outputs except the one on the GTX.

Thanks for any advice.

biker_rat · 09-06-2020, 09:27 AM

What kernel are you using?

abga · 09-07-2020, 11:05 AM

Please detail what "Slackware latest" means.
You could boot the system where the screen gets broken with the (presumably) nouveau frame buffer disabled. At the boot prompt, just after powering up the system, type:

Code:

boot: boot_image nouveau.modeset=0
#or simply:
boot: boot_image nomodeset

- substitute boot_image with the actual image tag

This should give you a working text mode console. From there you can try and build an Nvidia driver.
Check and ask in this forum for details:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...se-4175608923/