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embmicro

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Registered: 2014-07-30

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[SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

I tried updating to xorg 1.16 yesterday and after rebooting everything stopped after "[OK] Reached target Network."

I was able to switch to a different terminal and downgrade to xorg 1.15 to boot again.

I've seen https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-ser … available/ but I'm not sure what it implies I need to change to get it to work. I am running Gnome 3 with GDM.

I'm fairly new to Arch so any help to get me moving in the right direction would be great.

Thanks,
Justin

Last edited by embmicro (2014-07-30 17:51:31)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

Boot into tty and run 'startx'. Does it work?

embmicro

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

Nope, see the picture below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rqznh6tm9ofyj … .00.16.jpg

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

What graphics card/drivers?

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

Please change your thread title (edit your first post): your machine is booting, X isn't starting:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post

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embmicro

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Registered: 2014-07-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

I have dual gtx 770s using the nvidia 304.123-1 driver.

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

Try https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41380

embmicro

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Registered: 2014-07-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg 1.16 updated and won't start with Nvidia driver

That fixed it! You guys are awesome.

For other's reference...

Once booted press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get another terminal. Log in and type the following to downgrade the xorg packages.

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
sudo pacman -U xorg-server-1.15.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xf86-input-evdev-2.9.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
sudo reboot

Once it reboots you should have your desktop again. Run nvidia-settings and go to X Server Display Configuration. From there click Save to X Configuration File and save the file as 20-nvidia.conf. Then move the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf if you saved it somewhere else.

Upgrade back to xorg 1.16 and reboot.

Last edited by embmicro (2014-07-30 17:50:56)