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dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

[solved] Upgrading to NVIDIA-beta

I am trying to upgrade to the 169.04 drivers because the current ones freeze my computer once my video card gets even a little bit of stress (lots of images loaded, etc).  Whenever I try
pacman -R nvidia-utils
It gives me some dependency error and says "xorg-server: requires libgl".  I try to remove it when I am at the command line so xorg isn't running.  I even tried removing xorg but it said "dependency error" then something about nvidia.  How can I forcefully remove the old drive so I can install the beta ones?
EDIT: I just manually upgraded with the .run file I got from nvidia.com

Also, how do I start X when my PC boots up?  It goes straight to the command line.  I've tried changing the runlevel to 5, but I don't know what to change this to:
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon

Thanks!

Last edited by dax965 (2008-01-17 01:19:07)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [solved] Upgrading to NVIDIA-beta

To forcefully remove, use -Rd instead of just -R

Read "man pacman" for info.

In /etc/inittab you probably want:

# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

Together with:  pacman -S gdm

dax965

Member

Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: [solved] Upgrading to NVIDIA-beta

To forcefully remove, use -Rd instead of just -R

Read "man pacman" for info.

In /etc/inittab you probably want:

# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

Together with:  pacman -S gdm

I actually just figured it out with SLiM and it works perfectly.  Thanks for the reply, though!  I should really check the Wiki more extensively before I make a thread.  I'll keep that in mind for next time.