NVIDIA GT 750M black screen

  • Thread starter Thread starter Azelk
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Azelk

I've been attempting to resolve this issue for days, with no success. I'm fairly new to linux. I don't know anything about reinstalling the kernel (Although it sounds easy from what I've read). The window manager I'm currently using is KDE. I installed the nvidia drivers with pacman -S nvidia, then tried using startx. The screen goes black and my GPU fan comes on at full speed, then the laptop reboots after a few seconds. I also tried installing the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA's website with the same results. I've tried using nvidia-xconfig and bumblebee. The Xorg.0 log file has the entry

Code:
Screens found, but none have a valid configuration
or something similar to that.

I would have posted this on the Arch Linux forum but the verification is seemingly impossible in my state.

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