Bug#1126045: nvidia-driver: Black screen after install

[padraig looney]

Package: nvidia-driver
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: padraig.looney at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

After installation there is a blank screen. Nvidia-smi reports incorrect version. I performed a fulll purge of nvidia cuda prior to installation twice. The .run file from Nvidia works fine though.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nvidia-driver depends on:
pn  nvidia-alternative                                                   <none>
pn  nvidia-driver-bin                                                    <none>
pn  nvidia-driver-libs                                                   <none>
pn  nvidia-installer-cleanup                                             <none>
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-550.163.01 | nvidia-open-kernel-  <none>
    550.163.01
pn  nvidia-legacy-check                                                  <none>
pn  nvidia-support                                                       <none>
pn  nvidia-vdpau-driver                                                  <none>
pn  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia                                            <none>

Versions of packages nvidia-driver recommends:
pn  libnvidia-cfg1       <none>
pn  nvidia-persistenced  <none>
pn  nvidia-settings      <none>

Versions of packages nvidia-driver suggests:
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-source | nvidia-open-kernel-sour  <none>
    ce