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jsson

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Registered: 2015-10-23

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[SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

I'm trying to install nvidia drivers in order to be able to run steam.
I have a GTX 760 and a i5 4670k CPU and i run the latest version of gnome. With the GTX 760 i should be able to run the latest
Nvidia drivers. I'm following the Wiki article but still cannot get it to work.

The installations process

sudo pacman -Syu

sudo pacman -S nvidia

sudo pacman -S nvidia-libgl

It says that it conflicts with the mesa lib and i choose to remove it.
After that the installation goes through and it says that i should restart the system
to enable the driver to work properly. When i try to boot Syslinux freezes at

::running early hook [udev]

I can chroot into the system and when i try to startx it shows a few broken windows.
Right now i have removed the nvidia drivers and reverted back to the mesa ones.

What could be the cause of this problem and what error logs should i look at?

Last edited by jsson (2015-11-05 20:57:14)

VVedran

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Registered: 2015-10-10

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

you should blacklist mesa and run mkinitcpio -p linux after ,and read the wiki one more to be sure u did everything right

jsson

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Registered: 2015-10-23

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

you should blacklist mesa and run mkinitcpio -p linux after ,and read the wiki one more to be sure u did everything right

I am not home right now so i can not test it. Altough i know for shure that i followed the wiki perfectly.
Exactly how would it help to run

mkintcpio -p linux

from what i read on the wiki i can not see
how it would help in this situation.

VVedran

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

try it, nothing bad can happened, not long ago I was hopping between mesa and nvidia, and after I installed one or the other driver i would  end up in  console, so this helped me.

jsson

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Registered: 2015-10-23

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

try it, nothing bad can happened, not long ago I was hopping between mesa and nvidia, and after I installed one or the other driver i would  end up in  console, so this helped me.

Just as i was going to reinstall the nvidia drivers (reverted back to the mesa one as i said before)
i got this when trying to do pacman -S nvidia.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libEGL.so exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1.0.0 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so.1 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so.2 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so.2.0.0 exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so exists in filesystem
mesa-libgl: /usr/share/licenses/mesa-libgl/LICENSE exists in filesystem

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

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jsson

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Registered: 2015-10-23

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Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

I did pacman -Qo /path to file and it says that no package owns the file
the wiki says that in this case i should rename the files and reissue the
update command. Shall i just rename it to anything and the run the
install command again?

Why does the wiki say one thing and the post you linked another?

Last edited by jsson (2015-11-05 20:34:14)

jsson

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Registered: 2015-10-23

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]Nvidia driver breaks system

I tried to use the --forece flag and ofc the packages where installed then.
When i rebooted i used the nomodset flag on syslinux and i was able to boot.

Last edited by jsson (2015-11-05 20:57:25)