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fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

[SOLVED] How to upgrade Nvidia drivers from 304xx to 340xx

I have an Nvidia Gainward  GeForce 9500GT in my PC

It seems that the nvidia-304xx drivers are broken after the last update

Linux ezcool 4.3.3-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 23 20:09:18 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and in any case the nvidia-340xx drivers appear to be the correct ones for this chip. So my question is how do I update from one to the other?

# pacman -S nvidia-340xx nvidia-340xx-utils nvidia-340xx-libgl
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: nvidia-340xx-utils and nvidia-304xx-utils are in conflict (nvidia-utils). Remove nvidia-304xx-utils? [y/N] y
:: nvidia-340xx-libgl and nvidia-304xx-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove nvidia-304xx-libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia-304xx: requires nvidia-304xx-utils=304.131

Andrew

Last edited by fdservices (2016-01-08 10:32:51)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,720

Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade Nvidia drivers from 304xx to 340xx

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ng_drivers

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade Nvidia drivers from 304xx to 340xx

pacman -R nvidia-304xx; pacman -S nvidia-340xx nvidia-340xx-libgl

seems like the packaging of the old branches is not very good

fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

Re: [SOLVED] How to upgrade Nvidia drivers from 304xx to 340xx

Thanks tom.ty89 That worked

Thanks as well to V1del, I missed that reference in the wiki

Andrew