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highway

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Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 81

Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

OK...got it working, on my workstation at least. It appears that this version of the driver MUST have a Xorg conf file giving the PCI bus location of the video card you are using. So, to get my system to work, I added in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d a file called "10-nvidia.conf".  In that file I have:

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Device0"
   Driver "nvidia"
   VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
   BoardName "GeForce GT 610"
   BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

You can use this as a starting point, but you'll need to get the correct BusID for it to work. I believe VendorName and BoardName can be omitted. I assume your identifier needs to be unique.

You will probably need to use sudo to create this file.

I never got to experience the error of having startx be broken after the upgrade+rebooting.

I came in to post that I applied this fix before rebooting after the upgrade, and I was able to startx without issue.

I only changed the boardname on the card to a 640, and used the same file name when I created it.

THANKS fisco!

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,163

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Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

For those of you who are saying 346.36-2 breaks nVidia, there's 346.35-3 in the repos to go and test.

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FarStar07

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Registered: 2012-04-02

Posts: 48

Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

For those of you who are saying 346.36-2 breaks nVidia, there's 346.35-3 in the repos to go and test.

Yes, it solved the problem. Thanks.

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 617

Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

For those of you who are saying 346.36-2 breaks nVidia, there's 346.35-3 in the repos to go and test.

sorry for the obvious but how to install specific version? If you type pacman -S nvidia it will install propably the newest, so what to type to get the version that i want to have, not the one that will be installed? Is there some switch for it?

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,163

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Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

For those of you who are saying 346.36-2 breaks nVidia, there's 346.35-3 in the repos to go and test.

sorry for the obvious but how to install specific version? If you type pacman -S nvidia it will install propably the newest, so what to type to get the version that i want to have, not the one that will be installed? Is there some switch for it?

The Downgrading Packages Wiki is probably the best source of information on this.

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My public GPG key for package signing
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onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 279

Re: Can't upgrade with pacman -Syu due to failed nVidia dependencies...

Hello,

"Configuration snippet below in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf is from - fisco"

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Device0"
   Driver "nvidia"
   VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
   BoardName "GeForce GT 610"
   BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Thank you fisco, the above solution fixed it, i can now install the latest nvidia driver.

Regards
Martn

Last edited by onslow77 (2015-01-20 08:44:16)

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