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mark1977

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 28

nvidia card causes boot sequence to hang

Hi,

I am relatively new to Arch. I have recently installed Arch but not got as far as installing X yet. Anyway yesterday when I tried to boot into Arch to continue the installation process the boot sequence just hangs. Shortly after I see the words "Failed to initialize MSI X" I think it's around the point where you see "Waiting for udev events to be processed" although it's difficult to tell because it's so fast.

Anyway I discovered at random that this is due to using my nvidia card. If I unplug my nvidia card and instead use my onboard graphics card, everything is fine!

Can anyone point to what the problem could be?

Thanks,

Mark

xfce-tux

Member

Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 9

Re: nvidia card causes boot sequence to hang

Try to add the following into your /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

# hda_intel: Disable MSI for Nvidia chipsets
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0
options nvidia NVreg_EnableMSI=0

and have a look at these locations, where I found this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103506
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129433

On my system it works fine

mark1977

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 28

Re: nvidia card causes boot sequence to hang

Try to add the following into your /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

# hda_intel: Disable MSI for Nvidia chipsets
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0
options nvidia NVreg_EnableMSI=0

and have a look at these locations, where I found this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103506
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129433

On my system it works fine

Thanks for the suggestion tux. Unfortunately it doesn't work because I have discovered that MSI X failing is probably not the problem, as this also fails when I boot using my onboard video card.

Now the boot hangs at the point where the Arch web address is displayed...