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c-korn

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Registered: 2017-01-13

Posts: 2

[Dell Latitude D830] Nvidia driver does not load

Hello,

since yesterday there is the problem on my laptop that I no longer can start my lxqt desktop environment.

Normally my user is logged in automatically. Yesterday however I was on the login screen.
After typing in my credentials the system tries to load the nVidia driver as it seems but then I am back
at the login screen.

This is the output in dmesg:

[    7.072376] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[    7.072378] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[    7.072380] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[    7.072381] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[    7.072382] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.

Here is the entire output:
http://pastebin.com/raw/bbvsEGHZ

This is the output of inxi -GMS:

System:    Host: arch Kernel: 4.8.13-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Console: tty 2 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:   Device: portable System: Dell product: Latitude D830
           Mobo: Dell model: 0UY141 BIOS: Dell v: A15 date: 01/04/2010
Battery    BAT0: charge: 78.0 Wh 203.7% condition: 38.3/78.0 Wh (49%)
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G86M [Quadro NVS 140M]
           Display Server: X.org 1.19.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting)
           tty size: 160x50 Advanced Data: N/A out of X

There seems to have been some update this week which broke it.
My system is up-to-date.

Best regards

c-korn

Member

Registered: 2017-01-13

Posts: 2

Re: [Dell Latitude D830] Nvidia driver does not load

Now it works. Just installed the latest updates. Something must have fixed it meanwhile.