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Whitz

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Registered: 2015-02-09

Posts: 13

Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

Hey Guys,
Got a problem with my Arch Linux here, hope you can help.
Today I tried to install the official Nvidia Driver and BumbleBee following along the great Wiki on this topic.
Everything worked just fine and I also could run optirun gfxgear or somemthing like this.
I wanted to switch to the Nvidia Settings in the settings menu and it told me to configure my xconfig and restart x so I typed nvidia-xconfig in the terminal and it gave me an success output.
I restarted my system and now it hangs on the graphical thing I think. It won't boot anymore.
Hope you can help me out.

Thanks alot

Edit: My Nvidia Card is a Nvidia GT 740M if this matters

Last edited by Whitz (2015-02-09 11:02:41)

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

Logs or it didn't happen also what have you tried to do to fix? Arch chroot and take a look.

Whitz

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Registered: 2015-02-09

Posts: 13

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

What do you mean with logs or it didn't happen?
I tried to reinstall my xf86-video-intel video drivers, didnt worked, also tried to startx manually but didnt worked too.
And I reinstalled zlib but also didnt worked.

thearcherblog

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 165

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

I do not understand... Do you have an NVIDIA graphic card and you're installing intel drivers?

Can you post your lspci | grep VGA?

What errors do you have?

Whitz

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Registered: 2015-02-09

Posts: 13

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

No, I have a laptop with 2 graphic cards an intel hd4000 and a nvidia gt 740m.
I ran the Arch Linux installation well until I tried to get the nvidia gt working with bumblebee.
I followed the wiki of the bumblebee topic and it worked well. I wanted to switch into the nvidia settings and it told me my x isnt configured properly and I should type nvidia-xconfig and restart X.
After the restart it won't boot to the graphical interface anymore.

Hope this cleared up the things

Also I dont get any errors but it just wont load..

Last edited by Whitz (2015-02-09 12:08:49)

thearcherblog

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 165

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

ok, not expert because I use the Intel as main graphic card but I remember that I setup the nvidia one before.

First thing, if I were you, is disable the intel one (chosing the BIOS to use the discreet or PCIe).

After that when you are sure you booted with the Nvidia graphics, then try to make the installation. I didn't used bumblebee before so I do not know, but I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers and just install them and was working fine.

Hope it helps

Whitz

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Registered: 2015-02-09

Posts: 13

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

Ok, got Desktop back by renaming the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and restarting.
But Nvidia card still says you dont appear to be using the nvidia x driver.

thearcherblog

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 165

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

Have you choose the NVIDIA one on your BIOS? I guess the intel is the integrated and the Nvidia is the PCIe so unless you disable the Intel one, you're booting with the Intel and without the xorg.conf the kernel is detecting the intel and configure it.

You can check it on your logs.

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
might help

Whitz

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Registered: 2015-02-09

Posts: 13

Re: Won't boot anymore after nvidia-xconfig

in my bios i didnt got the opportunity to disable the intel graphics card, but i will give the nvidia optimus method a try
thanks alot