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Hi=) I have asus eeepc with Atom N570, Intel NM10 motherboard and nvidia |
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ION 2 (GT218). |
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Don't know if it's related, but I had the same black screen with official |
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nvidia drivers long time ago, so I stick to nouveau instead. It was all |
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normal until wayland came around and xorg-server fails every couple |
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releases. |
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So I have these issues time to time |
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1. X is dead, black screen on boot even on console without gnome, can login |
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and type commands, but everything is black, can connect over ssh |
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fix: rollback to previous working xorg-server (or unmask newer if |
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available), then recompile all installed xorg drivers again and everything |
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is working |
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2. X is alive, but when loading gdm nothing happened, black screen, |
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notebook unresponsive, can't even go to tty1 ctrl+alt+f1, gdm eat all cpu |
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and memory, then after 5-15 minutes crushes and freezes completely even on |
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ssh |
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fix: connect over ssh if possible or liveusb, disable display manager, so |
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only terminal is loaded on boot. |
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that's gnome issue, so I manually disable wayland for it instead of default |
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at |
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/etc/gdm/custom.conf |
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[daemon] |
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WaylandEnable=false |
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enable dm and load gnome on xorg and everything is working |
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normally wayland is ok, but sometimes is not |
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3. Also there can be issues with xorg and nouveau firmware compatibility, |
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and you can try to install/uninstall sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware package |
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to test |
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with that firmware you can have hardware acceleration enabled over vdpau, |
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otherwise you can only use software renderer and video is sometimes luggy |
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4. Sometimes xorg libinput crushes and I have mouse+touch+keyboard not |
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working with wayland, so I rollback or uninstall it, recompile xorg server |
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and drivers and stick to X instead of wayland |
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usually I have at xorg-drivers INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard libinput mouse |
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synaptics wacom" |
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Maybe with kde it has similar issues, haven't tested |
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currently I have wayland and X working normally and I have these package |
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versions |
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x11-base/xorg-server-1.19 |
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sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware-340.32 |
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gnome 3.22 |
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sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.8.12, will be 4.9.0 soon but that's unrelated |
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in my case |
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Hope some of it may be useful for you=) |
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