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Crooksey

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Registered: 2006-08-14

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pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

I have an 8600GT and i am trying to install the nvidia drivers, so i run.

pacman -Sy nvidia

Then when installing it says, cannot find nvidia module in /proc/modules, I cant modprobe it as it says "nvidia module not found".

So i was just wondering, Am I installing the driver incorrectly?

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Cerebral

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Re: pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

I'm not too knowledgeable on nvidia versions - but I know there are three versions of nvidia's proprietary modules in the repos: nvidia (for newer cards), nvidia-96xx (for not too new cards), and nvidia-71xx (for old cards).  You might require one of the older two module packages for your particular card.

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-07-26 20:12:50)

ozar

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Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

When this happens to me, I do a depmod -a from the terminal and it then installs.  Sometimes, I have to go into X, then exit out and reinstall nvidia for it to work.

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Re: pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

I always have to log out and back in to get mine to work, I believe.
Could it be as simple as that?

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Crooksey

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Re: pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

^ I dont think that would load a module.

I had to upgrade to kernel 2.6.22, then worked fine.

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Cerebral

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Re: pacman -Sy nvidia isnt installing the nvidia module.

I had to upgrade to kernel 2.6.22, then worked fine.

Yeah, the modules in the repos are always built against the current kernel in the repos - I've seen this one a few times.  Essentially, if you're installing new software, it's always a good idea to run pacman -Syu first to ensure you have all the most up-to-date dependencies.

Many times the packages will have versioned dependencies to ensure you get the latest-and-greatest of the deps you need, but it's often overlooked.  Lately I've added such to my fglrx packages, so that a module built for kernel26 2.6.22, for example, is installed, it will automatically pull in the new kernel too, if you don't have it already.