I have EndeavourOS (Arch Linux) installed on a Dell Precision 7540, which has a hybrid Quadro RTX 3000 paired with Intel UHD 630 integrated graphics. With Linux kernel 6.15, I was able to see the boot log output (efifb), but after upgrading to 6.16+, the screen is black. I use LUKS, so I am able to enter the password with no display and proceed, and eventually the display gets enabled.
Here is some info:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106GLM [Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
$ nvidia-smi
Fri Oct 31 09:24:12 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 Quadro RTX 3000 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 50C P8 9W / 80W | 6MiB / 6144MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 831604 G /usr/lib/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Boot logs, with timestamps removed to ease comparison. I only have logs for the 6.12 and 6.17 kernels, since that’s what’s currently available with the linux-lts and linux kernels in Arch.
linux-lts-6.12-kernel.log (63.5 KB)
linux-6.17-kernel.log (61.4 KB)