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RandomNumber4

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Registered: 2014-10-06

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

Today was a update linux-lts 3.14.20-1. And the same situation.
Someone forgot to update the nvidia-340xx-lts
Drivers nvidia-340xx now is update. And I hope that, this situation will not happen again.

Last edited by RandomNumber4 (2014-10-07 14:25:26)

erickwill

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Registered: 2013-11-05

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

While I wait for an update to resolve it, I start the GUI by typing in the console:

$ sudo modprobe --force nvidia
$ sudo systemctl restart gdm.service

replace "gdm.service" for your session manager and I hope you also work.

Thank you, this worked for me.  I have:

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

I removed all nvidia, installed new 340xx driver and related packages and also received the no screens found errors, tried to modprobe and received the exec format error.  This works for now.

I did exactly the same and it didn't work for me.. I'm running the very same card by the way.
Any thought?

zyxnull

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Registered: 2009-12-09

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

I had the same problem with a Geforce 210, downgraded kernel linux-3.16.3-1 and I could start on graphical session again, today there's a new version of nvidia-340xx which fixes the problem

kabads

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Registered: 2012-09-22

Posts: 271

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

My update today fixed the issue. I'll marked this as solved.

marmis85

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Registered: 2009-07-15

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

Rebuilding nvidia-340xx against the new kernel would fix it however it still needs to be understood why Linux 3.16.4 breaks it.

I don't earn my living this close to the bare metal, but I think this is a pretty normal case of the infamous ABI breakage: sometimes stuff gets gets changed, and other stuff needs to be rebuilt against the new version to work properly

Btw today I could survive the pacman -Syu, I love how that was the first wtf update (and avery minor one) after years of life on the bleeding edge

Last edited by marmis85 (2014-10-07 18:38:24)

erickwill

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Registered: 2013-11-05

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

My update today fixed the issue. I'll marked this as solved.

I wonder, worked without any additional workaround? I mean, did you Just upgrade and done? Because it's not working on my side.

edh

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Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

Updated to the newest nvidia-340xx and now it works fine with 3.16.4 for me too.

I wonder, worked without any additional workaround? I mean, did you Just upgrade and done? Because it's not working on my side.

I think you have some different problem given that the workaround explained previously also does not fix it for you.

What card do you have and what packages are you running?

GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

It works here after update

sudo pacman -Syu
reboot

marmis85

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Registered: 2009-07-15

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

I wonder, worked without any additional workaround? I mean, did you Just upgrade and done? Because it's not working on my side.

Are you super sure you installed nvidia-340xx, nvidia-340xx-utils, nvidia-340xx-libgl AND the latest kernel? if you use the LTS kernel you have to install nvidia-340xx-lts

kabads

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Registered: 2012-09-22

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

My update today fixed the issue. I'll marked this as solved.

I wonder, worked without any additional workaround? I mean, did you Just upgrade and done? Because it's not working on my side.

I just ran the update and it worked - however, I'm having problems with 32 bit applications, but that's a minor issue when compared to not have X.

khampf

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Registered: 2012-08-08

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

I had linux-lts 3.14.19 and 340xx-lts working great yesterday and todays update to linux-lts 3.4.20 broke nvidia-lts, so I can confirm modprobe --force works as a temporary quick fix, thank you.

D@rkmind

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From: London

Registered: 2011-10-26

Posts: 16

Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

Hey guys, I'm wondering - how did you manage to finally fix the problem without upgrading your hardware?

After running into this issue, I downgraded my nvidia drivers to 340xx from ABS and X is working fine right now. However, pacman still suggests to upgrade my video drivers on "pacman -Su". If I try to add nvidia 340xx packages into the ignore list, then pacman denies further system upgrade, saying that certain list of packages depend on newer version of nvidia drivers.

I'm afraid that if I upgrade nvidia packages to the latest version, my X server won't start again.

Does it mean that with my video card which is only supported by "legacy" 340xx drivers, I have to switch to LTS kernel or something?

kabads

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Registered: 2012-09-22

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

What specific problem are you having? Can you copy the pacman report here?

D@rkmind

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Registered: 2011-10-26

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Re: [Solved] nvidia-340xx - issue? Nvidia GeForce GT130M

What specific problem are you having? Can you copy the pacman report here?

Sure. Pacman says the following when I try to perform system upgrade, ignoring nvidia packages:

$ sudo pacman -Su --ignore lib32-nvidia-libgl --ignore lib32-nvidia-utils --ignore nvidia --ignore nvidia-libgl --ignore nvidia-utils
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: lib32-nvidia-libgl: ignoring package upgrade (340.32-1 => 343.22-1)
warning: lib32-nvidia-utils: ignoring package upgrade (340.32-1 => 343.22-1)
warning: nvidia: ignoring package upgrade (340.32-2 => 343.22-4)
warning: nvidia-libgl: ignoring package upgrade (340.32-1 => 343.22-1)
warning: nvidia-utils: ignoring package upgrade (340.32-1 => 343.22-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia: requires linux<3.17

Yeah, sorry for the confusion... Other packages do not depend on nvidia. Vice versa - nvidia packages depend on kernel