Black screen flashing white cursor top left on live boot. Nvidia GPU

Moudoux

Any updates on this? I am also having the same issue, with not way to get past the terminal into the gui to install Solus. I am on the X570 platform with a Ryzen 3900x and a GTX 1080, other various threads with this issue claim you can fix it by installing nvidia drivers, but as @chiltepin has mentioned that has no effect, and neither does booting with nomodeset. This is an ongoing problem with Solus that needs to be addressed as it is unusable currently. I can provide logs or whatever devs need if anyone can take a look at this.

Harvey

Moudoux
Well this thread is over 8 months old. Solus released the 4.1 iso 25th January 2020.

It should not be an issue with the latest ISO. I too have a X570 with a Ryzen 3900X only I have a GTX 1060 instead, no issues. So are you using the latest ISO?

Moudoux

Yes, latest iso and same issues as in this thread Harvey

NKSHV

Harvey I have this issue still

NKSHV

It is also weird, my solid live usb crashes 1st time due to nouveau error, second time I booted it it booted fine without nomodeset and I was able to install it, but now I am getting the nouveau crash every time I boot both the OS and the live USB.
nomodeset boots to the cursor, but Alt+f2 doesn't work, it won't open console, it stays at black screen

kaktuspalme

NKSHV Why don't you install the nvidia driver instead of using nouveau?

NKSHV

kaktuspalme I can't boot the system, how do I install the driver??

NKSHV

I found a solution: when it gives you the initial boot menu with solus and reboot to firmware, press e to edit solus entry, delete "quiet splash" and replace it with "noveau.nomodeset=0" and press enter

kaktuspalme

NKSHV What gpu do you have? Can you get to the tty now with nomodeset? Then you can install it using the terminal.
Propably "sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current" should do the trick, if your gpu is new enough and you use the current kernel.

NKSHV

kaktuspalme I have gtx 1650. As I said I can't access TTY with just nomodeset, but with "nouveau.nomodeset=0" the system boots properly. However now I've encountered this issue. https://discuss.getsol.us/d/3365-nvidia-glx-driver-common-problem
I can't use "sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current" as it shows "could not fetch destination file from "https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/n/nvidia-glx-driver/nvidia-glx-driver-common-440.44-329-1-x86_64.eopkg": [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
If the nvidia driver is in the database but missing from the repo, something is definitely wrong with solus drivers database and it might be why solus can't boot for so many people with nvidia gpus

JoshStrobl

NKSHV If the nvidia driver is in the database but missing from the repo, something is definitely wrong with solus drivers database and it might be why solus can't boot for so many people with nvidia gpus

It's not found because it doesn't exist anymore, we trim older packages. You need to make sure you have a fully up-to-date system (run sudo eopkg up).

NKSHV

JoshStrobl yes, upgrading did the trick. However after upgrading and installing the driver, solus boots into the flickering cursor again, but now I can't set it to nouveau nomodeset because it is not live usb and there are no entries where I can press e. However now ctrl +f2 opens terminal. That didn't help because starting and restarting lightdm does nothing. Seems like solus is just broken for nvidia gpus.

NKSHV

It seems to work now. I removed the nvidia driver from the ctrl f2 terminal by typing

sudo eopkg rm nvidia-glx-driver nvidia-glx-driver-common nvidia-glx-driver-32bit
sudo linux-driver-management configure gpu

then reboot.

After reboot it worked, doflicky showed that it found drivers (it didn't show that before) and those drivers worked. The package is the same package "nvidia-glx-driver", something must have been wrong with it before.

kaktuspalme

NKSHV Yeahh I mislead you a bit there. Then you are probably not on linux-current and therefore that driver didn't work.

NKSHV

kaktuspalme I don't know what "linux-current" is, but I've downloaded solus budgie iso today from https://getsol.us/download/ and flashed using rufus. Whatever this linux-current is, it was included in the official solus budgie download

WetGeek

NKSHV I don't know what "linux-current" is

There are at least two repositories -- stable and unstable. Packages are first tested in unstable, and then after confirmed to be working well, they're moved into stable. The newest kernel -- that can be tested and working without significant issues -- is called linux-current and is released via stable, as well as whatever is adopted as the LTS (earlier Long Term Support) kernel.

Carnage555

Having the same issue here. On a desktop setup with a dedicated GPU (RTX 2080Ti) and X570, trying to install Solus on my Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD.

Booting the live USB without using nomodeset results in green and purple lines while the system audibly starts in the background as I hear the boot sound. Using nomodeset gives me a black screen with the flashing white cursor and opening the terminal, logging in as root, using eopkg up, followed by eopkg install nvidia-glx-driver-current and then systemctl restart lightdm results in the flashing cursor again. There's no audible boot sound during this whole sequence of events as well.

I'd appreciate any solutions if anyone has any, would love to get Solus running on my setup.

destroyer

I had same problem. Since I have intel CPU with integrated graphics I went to BIOS settings and enabled that, connected monitor with VGA cable and install worked smoothly, system booting no problem. I tried to switch back to discrete GPU (nvidia 1660s) by installing nvidia drivers, disconnecting iGPU and connecting discrete GPU but was getting black screen with flashing cursor. I was able to alt+f2 to enter terminal, found out that ldm-session-init is crashing lightdm. As temp fix to be able to use system I went to edit xinit and add budgie-desktop so I can just use startx. I use current kernel, tried current and beta nvidia drivers, same crashing lightdm problem.

However, I was fiddling around, uninstalled nvidia drivers and I found out that if I enable "iGPU Multi-Monitor" setting in BIOS (ASUS BIOS Advanced\System Agent Configuration\Graphics Configuration) then everything works no problem without any nvidia drivers while monitor is still connected with discrete GPU and not integrated one. After many days I finally booted into system like normal human, went to install nvidia drivers from doflicky and rebooted. All worked fine, went to BIOS to disable iGPU Multi-Monitor and one reboot after I can still boot into solus, all works smooth. I have no idea whats going on..

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