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Availle

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 2

Nvidia installing problems (yes, again)

Hi all!

1. I'm a noob. I played around with some Ubuntu or Solaris from time to time, but not that much. Please keep that in mind if you try to explain things.

2. I managed to get through the "normal" install process, even got a KDE installed (whoever wrote that newbie guide: you are a hero)

3. Specs: I installed the 2008-04 RC 64 bit edition (the 2007-08 installer wouldn't recognize my dvd drive even with legacy enabled) on an Intel Dualcore processor with an NVidia 8800 GT videocard.

uname -r returns 2.6.24-ARCH.

I tried installing the proprietary drivers according to the wiki (yes, using pacman, no, at no point I tried to install the downloadable drivers from the Nvidia site, and yes, I only try that when no X server is running), get asked to remove libgl(answered with Yes), and then I get the following output:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: atl2: requires kernel26<2.6.25
:: ipw3945: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: madwifi: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: rt2500: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0
:: tiacx: requires kernel26<2.6.25
:: wlan-ng26: requires kernel26<=2.6.25-0

Now here's the point where I kind of lost track what's going on. Can anyone please help me?

lidewei

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 27

Re: Nvidia installing problems (yes, again)

Did you do pacman -Syu before installing anything else?

Availle

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 2

Re: Nvidia installing problems (yes, again)

I did, but it did not install some packages back then...maybe that means I did not "before anything else", which is strange, because I did follow the wiki...

A forced install (yes, I know I shouldn't do that) of these fixed the problem.

Thanks!

Last edited by Availle (2008-06-12 10:17:42)

lidewei

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 27

Re: Nvidia installing problems (yes, again)

Glad you got it to work.