[SOLVED] Black screen with NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M on BackBox 4.5

[kirito89]

Hi, I wanted to notify a problem with the latest version of BackBox and NVIDIA GPUs. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M. After installing the drivers from the "additional drivers tab", rebooting, and after the splash screen, the monitor turned black; I was able to use the "tty1" interface though. I also tried to install the official drivers downloaded from NVIDIA site, but it couldn't help. I apparently solved the issue downgrading to BackBox 4.2. My PC is HP Pavilion 15-n233sl, CPU i7-4500U. Thank you anyway.

[ZEROF]

Hi, downgrading is not solution. If you get tty remove drivers.

Find packages you installed: dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

In most cases: sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get autoremove will do good job.

Now, don't use "additional drivers tab". This is solution tested by few users:

1. add the graphics-drivers ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

2. install the reccomended driver
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

3.restart your system
sudo reboot

To select a different driver, not one forced by system:

1. add the graphics-drivers ppa (if you did in the past, don't run this commands again)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

2. check which drivers are available for your system
ubuntu-drivers devices

3.install the reccomended driver
sudo apt-get install nvidia-361 (you can try 364, but i didn't check if they are in repository)

4. restart your system
sudo reboot

It's better to remove drivers and try other drivers then use older system version.