NVIDIA drivers black screen

hawk4861776b

Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my nvidia drivers for gtx1660Ti laptop gpu [lenovo y740].

I know there's many different topics already created and many people have the same problem but none of these posts could help me.

The problem:
After setting up in UEFI my discrete GPU I can't boot up Solus OS because all I see is a black screen. I can choose which kernel I want to use [using the latest and check via command lines if it really boots from the latest; everything returns true].

Really important note: I am a total newbie in linux world, please be patient and explain things like you'd explain it to a kid 😃

What I did so far:

1. I installed, removed and reinstalled nvidia drivers [455 version - as far as I know they're compatibile with my GPU]. Still no success. [using doflicky and using eopkg: both methods failed]
2. Checked the kernel. I am using the latest kernel and drivers for "current" (I suppose it means for the current/latest kernel version). Verified through commandlines, uname -r and some other one. Nvidia drivers verified through commandline eopkg list-installed | grep nvidia; everything returns 455 version.
3. At this point I removed AMDGPU support, Radeon Support, removed xorg [out of frustration], removed modaliases-glx-390 and installed regular one.
4. I did put all those nomodeset into the grub and still didn't work, and it isn't saved after reboot. Removed AMD/Radeon lines from the GRUB and still black screen on booting using nvidia card.
5. Searched the forum multiple times and found not much.
6. Perhaps more than that including completely reinstalling OS.

At this point I gave up and got back to the Windows 10 and I am writing this post from it.
I really do want to get this Solus work because I know it's possible. It wasn't my first installation of this OS and my first did work well with my nvidia card. I just don't remember what I did to make it work.

Also, my PC specs:

i7 9750H
GTX1660Ti
500gb SSD
3 partitions + EFI (Also, I am noob in making partitions so I don't know if what I did is right):
root - 50 gb
home - 20 gb
swap - 16 gb
EFI - 500mb
Kernel - the latest 5.10.x

stalebrim

First of all, I'd suggest you roll back to the point before starting to remove stuff (eopkg history)

hawk4861776b

stalebrim and then? I know that this alone will not help.

hawk4861776b

For all helpers:

[BUDGIE]
The problem started right with the ISO 4.0. I used 4.0 because ISO 4.1 doesn't work with my device [examining drives stuck - I did a research about it and there's as many people having problem with iso 4.1 as people who have problem with nvidia drivers. Only good solution was to use 4.0 ISO], I couldn't boot it up with my discrete GPU, so I decided to use my intergranted instead. After successfully installing it on my SSD with intergrated GPU, I did neccesary/recommended updates from software updater [btw there's an issue with rebooting service/code after the update which forces me to hard reboot], and I did a hard reboot. After that I successfully rebooted into the OS, installed drivers using DoFlicky [including 32bit] and rebooted again. Went into the UEFI and switched back to the nvidia gpu. Reboot, I am back to the kernel choice menu [grub I guess thats called?], I choose the latest kernel. I hit enter the screen turns black and nothing shows up. I think I heard once a sound of the OS successfully booting up but that would be it. If I switch back to the intergrated gpu everything's fine but why would I use that iGPU when I have gtx1660ti?

And then I started search the forum, which lead to doing all the things mentioned above after many unsuccesfull tries I started to improvise without success.

stalebrim

hawk4861776b You're using systemd-boot, not GRUB. GRUB is only used for legacy boot and your system is EFI.
Try accessing a TTY when you get a black screen (CTRL+ALT+F1-F9). Log in and run dmesg, what does it say?

hawk4861776b

stalebrim I can't access the TTY because I have a black screen and see nothing. I'd guess that the OS wants to give the screen output using wrong hardware or something.

Idk I am not a IT specialist.
I accessed the dmesg from an igpu because I can't do it from nvidia card.

https://justpaste.it/89ude/pdf
https://justpaste.it/89ude

I'd happily attach this text in .txt file but forum doesn't allow me to do so.

Eopkg history:
https://justpaste.it/97i43/pdf

Eopkg installed:
https://justpaste.it/8hpr8/pdf

I may as well another reinstallation of Solus and put those nomodesets before booting up to Solus. Idk if that would help but there must be a way to make it work because it worked _two weeks ago before I made reinstallation of solus, and since the day I reinstalled Solus I can't get my nvidia drivers work.

kuki

I don't know if it's related to your problem but,
I don't see it on your list Eopkg installed: nvidia-glx-driver-current

I have NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and intel integrated and have :

nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases
nvidia-glx-driver-current
nvidia-glx-driver-common
nvidia-glx-driver-32bit
nvidia-390-glx-driver-modaliases