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  1. Vincent OS
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NVIDIA: Black screen after an update

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In case of a NVIDIA driver update and after reboot, you only see a black screen, follow this guide to how downgrade the NVIDIA driver.

  1. Open a Terminal

  2. Go to /var/cache/pacman/pkg by typing the following command:

Vincent OS Standard Edition:

PS> Set-Location /var/cache/pacman/pkg

Vincent OS Legacy Edition:

$ cat /var/cache/pacman/pkg
  1. Now, lookup the correct package to downgrade, there are 3 to view:

  • nvidia-dkms

  • nvidia-utils

  • nvidia-settings

You can search the version to downgrade by going on the following websites:

  1. Now that you located the version, type the following command:

Vincent OS All Editions:

sudo pacman -U nvidia-dkms.123-4 nvidia-utils.123-4 nvidia-settings.123-4
  1. Reboot the system when finished.

Congratulation you downgraded the NVIDIA Drivers!

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https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/nvidia-utils/-/commits/maingitlab.archlinux.org
GitLab website for the NVIDIA Utils package