[Solved] Can't install Nvidia driver: Mesa-libgl conflict

Firephyz · 2014-07-19 18:45:30

I just finished installing my first GUI, KDE to be exact, on Arch Linux. Right now, I'm using the nouveau driver but I want to unlock the full power of my GTX 780 with proprietary nvidia drivers. On my last attempt at installing KDE, I went directly to installing the nvidia driver 304.24. After rebooting and seeing some text flash on screen, however, I was meant with only a black screen. I could still type, login and reboot but not much more since I couldn't see. I tried booting into the Arch Linux fallback GRUB provided for me with no prevail so I decided to just reinstall the OS. For that reason, I want to install this nvidia driver in hopes of being able to avoid another blank screen. So far, I have this:

[root@arch /]# pacman -S nvidia
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: nvidia-libgl and mesa-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove mesa-libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nouveau-dri: requires mesa-libgl

I've tried looking across the forums for similar problems and even tried to uninstall mesa-libgl and all its dependencies but it just yields this:

[root@arch /]# pacman -Rns mesa-libgl
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: cairo: requires libgl
:: glu: requires libgl
:: libva: requires libgl
:: mplayer: requires libgl
:: nouveau-dri: requires mesa-libgl
:: qt4: requires libgl
:: qt5-base: requires libgl

I feel like I might need to uninstall the nouveau driver so as to be able to uninstall mesa-libgl. If I installed the nvidia driver at that point, I fear I might see the blank screen again. Thanks for your help in advance.

Last edited by Firephyz (2014-07-19 20:04:11)

Scimmia · 2014-07-19 18:46:58

You can't have nouveau and nvidia installed at the same time.

headkase · 2014-07-19 18:48:24

You need to remove the open-source Nouveau driver. It conflicts with the proprietary nVidia driver.

karol · 2014-07-19 18:49:16

Read pacman's man page to find out which switch to use to remove a package that is a dependency for other packages.

Firephyz · 2014-07-19 19:03:26

Is there any way I can be sure that I won't have to reinstall my OS again? Like I said, last time I installed the nvidia driver, my screen was blank and I couldn't get it back. I just don't want to uninstall nouveau and be stuck with a black screen.

loqs · 2014-07-19 19:22:02

Worst case have some some arch install media prepared mount and chroot into the install and with pacman remove nvidia and reinstall nouveau.

karol · 2014-07-19 19:23:19

It this happens, boot a liveCD and reinstall nouveau. No need to reinstall the whole system.

Firephyz · 2014-07-19 19:34:59

Oh wow, thanks guys. Never even thought of that. I did some more reading around and it turns out some people had problems with their system using Intel graphics instead of their gpu. I used modprobe to blacklist i915 and now I go and install the nvidia driver. Hopefully it works.

firekage · 2014-07-19 19:43:33

Scimmia wrote:

You can't have nouveau and nvidia installed at the same time.

Yes, he can. I have it that way.

[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Ss nouveau
[sudo] password for firekage: 
Niestety, proszę spróbować ponownie.
[sudo] password for firekage: 
extra/nouveau-dri 10.2.3-2 [zainstalowano]
    Mesa drivers for Nouveau
extra/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.10-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [zainstalowano]
    Open Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
multilib/lib32-nouveau-dri 10.2.3-2
    Mesa drivers for Nouveau (32-bit)
[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Ss nvidia
extra/libcl 1.1-4 [zainstalowano]
    OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDIA
extra/libvdpau 0.8-1 [zainstalowano]
    Nvidia VDPAU library
extra/nvidia 340.24-1 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
extra/nvidia-libgl 340.24-1 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
extra/nvidia-utils 340.24-1 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
extra/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.10-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [zainstalowano]
    Open Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
community/nvdock 1.02-5 [zainstalowano]
    A tray icon for easy launching of the NVIDIA control panel
community/nvidia-cg-toolkit 3.1-3 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA Cg libraries
multilib/lib32-libvdpau 0.8-1 [zainstalowano]
    Nvidia VDPAU library
multilib/lib32-nvidia-cg-toolkit 3.1-4 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA Cg libraries
multilib/lib32-nvidia-libgl 340.24-1 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks (32-bit)
multilib/lib32-nvidia-utils 340.24-1 [zainstalowano]
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$

Zainstalowano means, in english - installed.

Last edited by firekage (2014-07-19 19:46:36)

firekage · 2014-07-19 19:44:30

Firephyz wrote:

I just finished installing my first GUI, KDE to be exact, on Arch Linux. Right now, I'm using the nouveau driver but I want to unlock the full power of my GTX 780 with proprietary nvidia drivers. On my last attempt at installing KDE, I went directly to installing the nvidia driver 304.24. After rebooting and seeing some text flash on screen, however, I was meant with only a black screen. I could still type, login and reboot but not much more since I couldn't see. I tried booting into the Arch Linux fallback GRUB provided for me with no prevail so I decided to just reinstall the OS. For that reason, I want to install this nvidia driver in hopes of being able to avoid another blank screen. So far, I have this:
[root@arch /]# pacman -S nvidia
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: nvidia-libgl and mesa-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove mesa-libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nouveau-dri: requires mesa-libgl
I've tried looking across the forums for similar problems and even tried to uninstall mesa-libgl and all its dependencies but it just yields this:
[root@arch /]# pacman -Rns mesa-libgl
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: cairo: requires libgl
:: glu: requires libgl
:: libva: requires libgl
:: mplayer: requires libgl
:: nouveau-dri: requires mesa-libgl
:: qt4: requires libgl
:: qt5-base: requires libgl
I feel like I might need to uninstall the nouveau driver so as to be able to uninstall mesa-libgl. If I installed the nvidia driver at that point, I fear I might see the blank screen again. Thanks for your help in advance.

You do it wrong.

sudo pacman -Rdd mesa-libgl && sudo pacman -S nvidia

After it, you can decide if you want to reinstall mesa-libgl and remove nvidia-libgl or leave nvidia-libgl and do not install mesa-libgl. I do it all the time during update.

Last edited by firekage (2014-07-19 19:48:30)

Firephyz · 2014-07-19 20:01:44

I got it working guys. I'm not quite sure what did it if it was the disabling of the Intel graphics module or not. It's working awesomely now though. I think I'll just leave nouveau not installed, at least for now. Thanks for your help.

karol · 2014-07-19 20:12:05

firekage, run

LC_ALL=C <command>

to get the output in English.

Scimmia · 2014-07-19 23:28:22

karol wrote:

firekage, run
LC_ALL=C <command>
to get the output in English.

Or don't, since we don't really care about his broken system.

karol · 2014-07-19 23:43:35

I don't know if he is using this nvidia+nouveau setup for something or he just wanted to say you can install both packages:

$  sudo pacman -S nvidia
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: nvidia-libgl and mesa-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove mesa-libgl? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: nvidia-libgl and mesa-libgl are in conflict
$ sudo pacman -Sdd nvidia
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (1):

Name            New Version  Net Change  Download Size

testing/nvidia  340.24-2     4.44 MiB         4.33 MiB

Total Download Size:    4.33 MiB
Total Installed Size:   4.44 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages ...
 nvidia-340.24-2-i686                    4.3 MiB  2.05M/s 00:02 [###################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                  [###################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                [###################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                     [###################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                               [###################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                             [###################################] 100%
(1/1) installing nvidia                                         [###################################] 100%
In order to use nvidia module, reboot the system.

firekage · 2014-07-20 00:20:53

karol wrote:

I don't know if he is using this nvidia+nouveau setup for something or he just wanted to say you can install both packages:

I havent said anything like that. I said that both packages can be installed and present. I have installed nvidia and nouveau, don't use nouveau, and don't have mesa-libgl because it is removed manually after system update, when i had to remove nvidia-libgl because of mesa dependancies.

BTW:

karol wrote:

firekage, run
LC_ALL=C <command>
to get the output in English.

Tried, still in polish

Last edited by firekage (2014-07-20 00:25:26)

firekage · 2014-07-20 00:22:52

Scimmia wrote:

karol wrote:
firekage, run
LC_ALL=C <command>
to get the output in English.
Or don't, since we don't really care about his broken system.

You're the one..that didn't understand it at all, so, be more polite.

nomorewindows · 2014-07-20 00:32:01

Do you have the right nvidia for your card? Before I installed nvidia, the screen would go full 1080p, but not without crashing the entire box after some time. I install nvidia (and apprently the wrong one for the card), and it goes into failsafe at 1024x768.

Scimmia · 2014-07-20 00:45:52

firekage wrote:

Scimmia wrote:
karol wrote:
firekage, run
LC_ALL=C <command>
to get the output in English.
Or don't, since we don't really care about his broken system.
You're the one..that didn't understand it at all, so, be more polite.

Oh I understand, it's just useless. As for being polite, I don't care.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-07-20 00:46:38)

Trilby · 2014-07-20 01:28:21

Closing. This thread was [SOLVED] several posts back.

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