30th August 2016, 22:19
Sorry for the late answer. Currently on vacation so not able to check in regulary.
Back to your problem. In general the free driver shipped with the kernel should support your card. If it does not work and you get a black screen it might be worth checking the /var/log/Xorg.1.log that should be the log file of your non working boot after you booted up with nomodeset.
Take a look for E: marked lines as these are the important error messages.
Of course there are other logs there aswell like the sddm.log or you can also check journalctl for the general kernel log.
Back to your problem. In general the free driver shipped with the kernel should support your card. If it does not work and you get a black screen it might be worth checking the /var/log/Xorg.1.log that should be the log file of your non working boot after you booted up with nomodeset.
Take a look for E: marked lines as these are the important error messages.
Of course there are other logs there aswell like the sddm.log or you can also check journalctl for the general kernel log.