nvidia borken?

egad · 2006-12-09 21:37:13

Is nvidia or something in xorg broken?
I run pacman -Syu once a week. This week after I updated and rebooted xorg and or nvidia no longer seem to function. So far i've run pacman -Syu, srcpac -Sy, and nvidia nvidia-xconfig. Neither one gets xorg to work. I've looked around some on google as well.

What's up?

-Thanks.

yankees26 · 2006-12-09 21:53:55

Are you using the -ck kernel? I was trying it out earlier and xorg couldn't load nvidia (and I went back to beyond)

Kermit · 2006-12-09 22:17:02

Nvidia-legacy don't work for me too. Toady I made 'pacman -Syu' and I installed the newset kernel from 'current' (2.6.19-3) and 'nvidia' doesn't work now. It isn't a big problem to me, but I'm waiting for a good version of packages or other solution for this problem .

Kermit.

cphase · 2006-12-09 22:56:49

I have the same problem gentlemen. Has any one solved the prob yet?

harlekin · 2006-12-09 23:33:15

Maybe some error messages would be helpful.

spookshow · 2006-12-09 23:44:29

try running blackbox or something similar (openbox, etc) and see if that works, if it does, check this post for the fix, i had this issue after an update last week

yankees26 · 2006-12-10 00:02:51

harlekin wrote:

Maybe some error messages would be helpful.

I don't remember exactly and didn't really care 'cause I just went back to beyond, but if I remember correctly, the logs said that it could not load the nvidia module.

And spookshaw, I run Openbox and it has nothing to do with X not starting.

cphase · 2006-12-10 00:08:03

FATAL: nvidia module not found
Nvidia(0) failed to load Nvidia kernel module
nvidia(0) Aborting
screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration

I re-installed xorg and nvidia drivers but no help.

Did a fresh install of Arch and now I get a kernel panic after updating my machine. is something going on with kernel 2.6.19?

spookshow · 2006-12-10 04:02:21

yankees26 wrote:

harlekin wrote:
Maybe some error messages would be helpful.
I don't remember exactly and didn't really care 'cause I just went back to beyond, but if I remember correctly, the logs said that it could not load the nvidia module.
And spookshaw, I run Openbox and it has nothing to do with X not starting.

but the fix involves removing the latest libx11 package, which broke gdm/gnome where blackbox ran just fine using the nvidia package... it was a problem with gnome, it just rules out that it is a problem with x, would it not?

cphase · 2006-12-10 04:05:27

I could not get any WM to run!

spookshow · 2006-12-10 04:18:40

try this

pacman -Sy current/libx11

and overwrite if newer. see if that helps, fixed my problem

Kermit · 2006-12-10 10:13:06

Thanks spookshow! It works and now I don't have problem with 'nvidia' module.

Kermit.

egad · 2006-12-10 14:18:43

Ok so here's the status reinstalled current/libxll as per sugestion.

pacman -Sy current/libx11

and then ran:

pacman -Sy nvidia

Only now I get:
Targets nvidia-1.0.963-1
Total Package Size: 1.6 MB
Proceed with upgrad?[Y/n] y
checking package integrity.....
error: archchive nvidia-1.0.9631-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted

I'll see if pacman -Sy stable/nvidia works-
Not found or some sort of oddity in syntax
Man what a drag
and incredibly lame!

egad · 2006-12-10 14:31:09

Ok this is beyond lame-like totally lame

Somehow pacman -Syu grabs the right nvidia utills (1.0.9-something) and nothing else

So-
Mabie for others this will work:
run:

pacman -Syu

then:

pacman -R nvidia

(somehow this removes only the 1.0.8 stuff no idea why)

Now:

 srcpac -Sb nvidia

Nice new shiny nvidia logo and everything.

brain0 · 2006-12-10 14:34:06

Okay, I write this the fourth time today: If you don't get current and extra repos from the same mirror, then this will happen. There are updated nvidia packages in the extra repo. You don't have to mess with PKGBUILDs and such, especially if you have no idea what you are doing.

yankees26 · 2006-12-10 15:09:39

Also, such a slight message to egad: there is no repo named stable, that is why pacman -S stable/nvidia doesn't work. And like brain0 said, revision 3 of the nvidia-ck package works (typing this from ck kernel with rev3 of the nvidia-ck package) (now to decide if I want to use ck or stick with beyond )

cphase · 2006-12-10 20:23:47

Ok brain0, I am new to Arch and I am not that familiar with pacman yet. What do u suggest doing to keep from getting packages from two diff repos. All I did was a pacman -Syu.

chilebiker · 2006-12-11 00:26:23

I had the same problem after upgrading to kernel 2.6.19 last night. I reinstalled Nvidia drivers, did a "modprobe nvidia" and then "nvidia-xconfig". now it works again.

brain0 · 2006-12-11 02:00:55

cphase wrote:

Ok brain0, I am new to Arch and I am not that familiar with pacman yet. What do u suggest doing to keep from getting packages from two diff repos. All I did was a pacman -Syu.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors read the text at the beginning of the article.

cphase · 2006-12-11 22:29:14

Thanks braino! just what I needed.

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