Stuck on Black screen after changing the drivers and restarting. | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 4:58 PM

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I was changing the drivers that I had selected to be the older Nvidia driver instead of the most up to date one. after the download process it said it was ready to restart the computer and I selected the restart, but now it only shows a black screen when it starts up.

oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:01 PM

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Niko OP — 31/07/2024 18:18
I found a solution. For future people, you need to go into the recovery mode, click boot normally, then open the terminal and type sudo nano /etc/default/grub and edit the line "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" " to be GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset" (adding nomodeset) this fixes the error and lets you proceed to default loading.

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"save" in nano editor = ctrl+O

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:28 PM

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Hey just to make sure I'm in the right place is this the correct terminal

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oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:34 PM

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see if you can login there

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actually no

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i dont think that's right

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press Escape key or hold shift key about 3 seconds after reboot, after the BIOS splash, and just before Mint gets a chance to even start.

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then go to advanced

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press e for edit.

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and add nomodeset to the startup commands.

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:39 PM

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No matter what I do regardless of if I do shift or esc it won't change

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I managed to get to it previously somehow

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Is this it?

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oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:42 PM

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yeah go to Advanced options

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:42 PM

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I think I finally found it

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oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:43 PM

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I suppose the 2nd last option . for shell.

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:44 PM

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I hit the normal boot like you mentioned previously and it took me to the log in

oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:44 PM

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which log in?

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the TTY black screen?

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:45 PM

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The normal one and it even let me log in, I'm back to normal now by the looks of it!

oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:45 PM

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ok now u can change the drivers back

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:45 PM

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Yeah

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Thanks for the help, hopefully nothing happens again

oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:46 PM

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I didn't do anything

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well other than let u enter the advanced mode

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:47 PM

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Well you pointed me in the right direction and that helped for sure

oblique canyon Aug 10, 2024, 5:47 PM

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kool. mark it solved.

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after u revert the drivers, and it works on reboot, ofc

fresh iris Aug 10, 2024, 5:49 PM

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If I can get them changed I will make sure to mark this solved

#Stuck on Black screen after changing the drivers and restarting.