Nvidia drivers

fxlgore · 2015-09-05 03:44:19

Hello, I installed Arch few weeks ago and everything perfect, I'm using plasma 5.4 and nouveau, and I think I could have a better experience, for example by putting my username and enter to the desktop a crash always occurs for about 2 seconds and then plasma load, as well as some applications, the screen becomes multicolored, private driver I'll hope fix it, I got debian on another partition and kde 4.14 with the same problems, installing the NVIDIA and everithing work fine.. well, what have I done ?, ALL!!

1. First, pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils, after reboot I lost the video driver cause everything looked in big letters and never started the o.s
2. nvidia-xconfig not work, show me an error that there is no path and will create in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... Keep going the same as point 1.
3. Damn, I read the whole wiki arch-nvidia!, you must delete "nouveau" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, the problem is I have no idea where is nouveau in that file, all is commented and the 3 lines without "#" does not have "nouveau" at all, so just delete nouveau driver, then installed nvidia, the x (nvidia-xconfig), restart .. get back to point 1,
4. In the wiki there is a script that is exclusive to switch nouveau to NVIDIA, ran it, this script deletes nouveau and lib32-libgl, then install nvidia, ok, the wiki recommend to set the x in / etc / X11 / xorg.conf.d / 20-nvidia.conf over the xorg.conf, I did it manually with nano, reboot with my whole hope... return to the same mistake of point 1

I switch to tty2 give a startx and FAIL, tells me it can not connect to a screen, startx is looking at all the X files, xorg.conf, xorg.conf.d, or files from /var blablabla, nothing, tried switching nvidia configuration in each of these places and?.. nothing, delete nvidia, mesa, delete xorg-server, then reinstall everything and the startx fail again, even nouveau doesn't work anymore, installing nvidia driver destroy my arch.

By the way, I have an arch image saved with clonezilla, and all attempts at each point, I got back when arch work fine.

Laptop Samsung I5 2.7GHz
4GB ram
Nvidia 1GB GT330

Thanks and zorry but I'm spanish, the spanish archlinux forums are dead ...

Last edited by fxlgore (2015-09-05 17:27:45)

smirky · 2015-09-05 06:27:47

You seem to be very confused. Setting up NVIDIA or nouveau is pretty simple, no need to be a rocket scientist.
Give us some info regarding your environment.

$ pacman -Q | grep "nvidia\|mesa\|xf86-video"
$ ls -l /etc/X11/
$ ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
$ lspci | grep VGA
$ uname -a

Last edited by smirky (2015-09-05 06:30:02)

fxlgore · 2015-09-05 14:26:29

Thanks, actually im gonna crazy, I know to install nvidia seems easy but I couldn't

$ pacman -Q | grep "nvidia\|mesa\|xf86-video"

mesa 10.6.5-1
mesa-demos 8.2.0-4
mesa-libgl 10.6.5-1
xf86-video-ark 0.7.5-6
xf86-video-ati 1:7.5.0-2
xf86-video-dummy 0.3.7-4
xf86-video-fbdev 0.4.4-4
xf86-video-glint 1.2.8-6
xf86-video-i128 1.3.6-6
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+381+g5772556-1
xf86-video-mach64 6.9.5-1
xf86-video-neomagic 1.2.9-1
xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.11-3
xf86-video-nv 2.1.20-6
xf86-video-openchrome 0.3.3-5
xf86-video-r128 6.10.0-1
xf86-video-savage 2.3.8-1
xf86-video-siliconmotion 1.7.8-1
xf86-video-sis 0.10.8-1
xf86-video-tdfx 1.4.5-6
xf86-video-trident 1.3.7-1
xf86-video-vesa 2.3.4-1
xf86-video-vmware 13.1.0-2
xf86-video-voodoo 1.2.5-6

$ ls -l /etc/X11/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 ago 31 15:06 xinit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 ago 31 15:22 xorg.conf.d

$ ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272 ago 31 15:22 10-keyboard.conf

$ lspci | grep VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)

$ uname -a

Linux sergio-I5 4.1.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 08:52:28 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I restored arch and working with nouveau (and its crashes) now.

Lord_Sunday123 · 2015-09-05 15:33:52

First off, it's a known issue that plasma 5.4 crashes on login. Does it to me as well, and the drivers are not the cause.

To installed the nvidia drivers, all you should need to do is run

sudo pacman - S nvidia-304xx

You'll to reboot for it to change to the nvidia drivers. You shouldn't actually need to delete anything that says nouveau. Rebooting should be sufficient.

EDIT: Was on my phone sorry, and I think I just found your problem. You've likely been trying to install the normal nvidia drivers, which in most cases is fine. However, after checking the legacy list of nvidia gpus on the forums, the GT330 is so old that it is no longer supported by the latest drivers. Now, there are two ways to solve this: 1. you continue using the opensource drivers, or 2. you install the legacy nvidia drivers. Personally, I see no reason for you to use the nvidia drivers, but if you wish, you can use the command above. That should allow you to use the Nvidia drivers. I'll make no guarantees though, I've never needed to use the legacy drivers.

Last edited by Lord_Sunday123 (2015-09-05 15:49:40)

Soukyuu · 2015-09-05 16:09:52

If the 330GT was deprecated, you should use the 340xx drivers NOT the 304xx drivers.

Mr.Elendig · 2015-09-05 16:24:29

Also uninstall all the xf86-video-* packages

fxlgore · 2015-09-05 17:06:56

Damned finally, I installed nvidia-340xx, thanks. Ok, I didn't know the package nvidia nvidia-utils doesn't work to me, I installed this on debian and works.. So, the crash post login disappeared, but some desktop effects as well (can't even activate them cause disappeared from plasma configuration effects) :S, opening start menu covers until the top, what's going on, im gonna read about nvidia-340xx, thanks again.

loqs · 2015-09-05 17:10:46

mesa-libgl 10.6.5-1

did you change that to nvidia-340xx-libgl?

WorMzy · 2015-09-05 17:15:19

Please change your topic title to something less dramatic, and more relevant to your problem.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_post

fxlgore · 2015-09-05 17:39:10

loqs wrote:

mesa-libgl 10.6.5-1
did you change that to nvidia-340xx-libgl?

yes i did, on plasma effects in the top, an option says.. "exclude desktop efects not permited by the composer", so I removed the checkbox, and the effects appeared, my olds effects are activated but don't works, nouveau gave me great effects but often crashes, nvida fix those crashes but doesn't give effects haha, however i'll continue reading

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