nvidia 173.14.05 problems

cardinals_fan · 2008-06-19 00:23:54

I'm having problems with my GeForce 6100 using the 173.14.05 drivers. When I start the X server with startx, a thin (1-3 pixels) bar shows on the top of my screen. This is the only part of my desktop that is visible. The bar changes correctly when I move the mouse over it or start dmenu, but the rest of my screen remains black and unresponsive. Is anyone else experiencing this?

dabski · 2008-06-19 01:48:19

I have a GeForce 6800 and no problems here. Have your tried reverting to the older drivers?

ozar · 2008-06-19 01:56:39

Not sure what the problem might be, but no problems here with the 6600GT using this driver, or the previous driver.

cardinals_fan · 2008-06-19 02:10:26

The nvidia-96xx driver works OK. My card should be supported by the other one though, so I'm still a bit confused.

iamcraig · 2008-06-19 15:17:46

I also have a Gforce 6100 that dislikes the 173.14.05 nvidia packages. I get the same thin line at the top of an otherwise blank screen. I've reverted to 169.12 for now using pacman -U and the archived packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

iamcraig · 2008-06-23 17:34:11

I believe nvidia-utils needs to be rolled back along with nvidia. e.g.:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-169.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-169.12-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Misfit138 · 2008-06-23 19:11:30

iamcraig wrote:

I believe nvidia-utils needs to be rolled back along with nvidia. e.g.:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-169.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-169.12-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz

The above is correct for i686.
With x86-64, you will also need the corresponding lib32-nvidia-utils package.

sp42b · 2008-06-24 01:18:10

Same problem here (173.14 and Nvidia 6100 onboard). Downgrade to 169.12 solved the issue.

Rokas · 2008-06-24 07:07:23

I made the worst thing in my life... Reinstall arch, but drivers still not working. In my office computer (with nvidia 5500FX) everything's working ok. I saved pacman cache in my home directory, and after install I copied to /var/ and downgrade to 169.12.*, everything's working ok with older packages also I ignored upgrade in pacman.

# nano /etc/pacman.conf (add line)
IgnorePkg nvidia nvidia-utils

macgyvier · 2008-06-24 21:13:20

I had problems with nvidia-utils 173.14.05 on the 6600 GT. I went ahead and installed the 173.14.09 driver using the nvidia-installer and everything seems to be working fine. I think there may be a problem with nvidia-utils 173.14.05 driver. One key difference I noticed is in file structure between the nvidia-installer and nvidia-utils. The nvidia-installer installs /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.173.14.05 and /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.173.14.05, which doing a diff between the two are different files ( kinda strange because they are named exactly the same). I don't know if this matters or not, but nvidia-utils installs the /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.173.14.05 to /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.173.14.05, and doesn't install the one in the tls dir. Personally I seem to always have trouble with every major version change. I had similar trouble going from 100 to 169. I don't know if this helps or not, but I thought I would mention it.

Take care.

Rokas · 2008-06-24 23:48:36

Driver working ok with my FX5500XT, but not with FX5600XT.

rfleming · 2008-07-15 16:29:51

Hello,

After testing out ArchLinux (and quite liking it, I've used various flavors of Linux for 10+ years, and Arch has quickly became my favorite), I decided to migrate my personal computer to Arch.

Only one problem... I did this last night, and I have the Geforce 6100 integrated chipset (and 64 bit loaded), and the same exact issue that is described here.

I spent three hours trying to get X to go higher than 1024x768 (my LCD (Samsung) does max resolution of 1280x1024, just as described here).

However, my problem is I don't have the packages in my cache, as this is a fresh install of Arch, so all that I have available is the latest drivers, which of course cause this issue. My previous install was in VirtualBox, which resided on this machine (and was wiped).

I was reading from here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

That I can downgrade my package, and I found the sources to what I believe is the previous version here:

http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/n … threv=2757

Should I attempt to recreate the package, or is there another location I can retrieve it from (or can someone upload them somewhere?) I've built Debian packages before, but not Arch, so I don't know how simple it is versus finding the package somewhere else.

Has anyone attempted to try out the beta version (177-13.1) to see if it resolved the issue (I found this this morning however I will not be able to test it out until tonight), which is located here:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152

Any help would be very appreciated

iBertus · 2008-07-15 16:36:04

Either someone could post the package you need or you could get one of the previous PKGBUILDs for nvidia and nvidia-utils and rebuild. See repos.archlinux.org for the SVN browser for all Arch Linux PKGBUILDs.

enrique · 2008-07-15 17:20:16

Ditto on the line issue on a Geforce 6100 in my HTPC connected to a CRT TV.

Misfit138 · 2008-07-15 17:41:21

rfleming wrote:

Hello,
After testing out ArchLinux (and quite liking it, I've used various flavors of Linux for 10+ years, and Arch has quickly became my favorite), I decided to migrate my personal computer to Arch.
Only one problem... I did this last night, and I have the Geforce 6100 integrated chipset (and 64 bit loaded), and the same exact issue that is described here.
I spent three hours trying to get X to go higher than 1024x768 (my LCD (Samsung) does max resolution of 1280x1024, just as described here).
However, my problem is I don't have the packages in my cache, as this is a fresh install of Arch, so all that I have available is the latest drivers, which of course cause this issue. My previous install was in VirtualBox, which resided on this machine (and was wiped).
I was reading from here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
That I can downgrade my package, and I found the sources to what I believe is the previous version here:
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/n … threv=2757
Should I attempt to recreate the package, or is there another location I can retrieve it from (or can someone upload them somewhere?) I've built Debian packages before, but not Arch, so I don't know how simple it is versus finding the package somewhere else.
Has anyone attempted to try out the beta version (177-13.1) to see if it resolved the issue (I found this this morning however I will not be able to test it out until tonight), which is located here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152
Any help would be very appreciated

It's very simple to downgrade through ABS. Read the ABS wiki page, and simply change the version numbers of the nvidia and nvidia-utils PKGBUILDs. Build the packages and install with pacman.

daf666 · 2008-07-15 17:41:23

I am using these packages and have them if you need them:
nvidia 169.12-4
nvidia-utils 169.12-1

rfleming · 2008-07-16 05:46:12

I must admit, the whole package building process in ArchLinux is awesome.

Pretty simple solution, in this case I just downloaded the older copiesof the PKGBUILD file from Subversion and overwrote my copy of what was in ABS. This was necessary for both nvidia and nvidia-utils because of the MD5 hash check which occurs within the build scripts.

After building the packages, it was as easy as uninstalling nvidia and nvidia-utils and installing my custom packages. ABS makes me feel spoiled compared to what I've done before in other distributions to get custom builds registered in their package database . I also ignored both nvidia and nvidia-utils in pacman.conf for now until nvidia has this driver issue resolved.

Thanks for everyone's help!

Thanks,
Rick Fleming

GogglesGuy · 2008-07-16 15:18:25

173.14.09 definitely gives a lot of problems. I'm getting a lot of crashes in my opengl programs and valgrind shows a lot of potential problems:

=31093== Invalid write of size 1
==31093== at 0x4C2332D: memcpy (in /usr/lib/valgrind/amd64-linux/vgpreload_memcheck.so)
==31093== by 0x40C636B: (within /usr/lib/libGL.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x8C81F47: _nv000083gl (in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x8C1C9CE: (within /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x8C1DF4C: (within /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x8C68D17: (within /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x8C69567: _nv000084gl (in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x40C405E: (within /usr/lib/libGL.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x40C73EF: (within /usr/lib/libGL.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x409F357: (within /usr/lib/libGL.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x899B46C: (within /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)
==31093== by 0x89C5E93: _nv000546gl (in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09)

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nvidia 173.14.05 problems

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