On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > So here's what happened, I was facing issue with proprietary nVidia driver (screen tearing) so I thought I want to switch to the free one, so I uninstalled nvidia with "pacman -Rs nvidia" , then I thought might as well try a different kernel and installed zen. Now when I boot into either kernel I am seeing "Starting display manager" then a black screen. I can login to tty2 , but no display comes up. > > I want to switch back to free driver, with preferably zen kernel. What should I do? Thanks in advance. > > J > > Sent from Mailspring<https://link.getmailspring.com/link/1525455037.local-ac8782b6-7fb0-v1.2.1-7e7447b6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgetmailspring.com%2F&recipient=YXJjaC1nZW5lcmFsQGFyY2hsaW51eC5vcmc%3D>, the best free email app for work > Your original post did not say what steps you took to switch from the proprietary driver to the opensource one. Did you follow the instructions given here [1], and ended up with the black screen as a result? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau I too had to switch from the proprietary nvidia driver to the nouveau one some time ago and I did not bump into any trouble there. Care to elaborate a bit on what else you did besides uninstalling the proprietary driver?
