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#1 2011-07-21 12:17:46

ChaosEnergy
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Registered: 2010-12-10
Posts: 9

Nvidia driver crashes X and freezes system

I've installed Arch Linux last night and the nvidia driver I installed crashes X a few seconds after I start it.

At the moment I'm using Nouveau without a problem but I'm not satisfied with the performance so I'd like to use the official nvidia driver. So far I tried the one in the package database (270), the beta one from the AUR (280) and two older ones, (250 & 260). Neither of the latter would install, I'm guessing because of old kernel version?

So basically the problem is that whenever I start X it works for a couple of seconds (less than 10) and then my system freezes to a black screen. When I boot gdm the same thing happens, everything works including input and sound but shortly after seeing the login screen the black screen appears again.

Here's an X error log: http://pastie.org/2248178

So any ideas?

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