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Ekimino

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nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

I was wondering if anybody still has in cache the 169.12 nvidia drivers package version, I'm actually having problems with the current drivers, once i quit Xorg it wont display anything, just a black screen. So if i quit pressing ctrl+alt+backspace there's nothing to do but a nasty shutdown. My video card is a 9500M GS. And in my search it showed up that those drivers made it run just fine. I will be accepting any other version drivers offer. Or maybe just a simple solution to this problem.

I've made an ftp account on my site - pls , email to get user and password at: jsanchezsilvera[at]gmail.com - I'll be very grateful.

btw the nvidia-packages old packages are on /var/cache/pacman/pkg they will be name es nvidia-VERSION-old.tar.gz.

I have to official package but it has compiling errors, maybe some of you can help me by explaining me how to run the official package.

Thank you.

Last edited by Ekimino (2008-09-09 23:44:52)

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somedrew

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

Greetings,

I don't have the package in my cache but you can download the nvidia binary from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux … 2-pkg1.run
If you grab /var/abs/extra/nvidia/* and /var/abs/extra/nvidia-utils/* from abs all that needs to be done is change $pkgver in the PKGBUILD to 169.12 to build the packages with makepkg (note: you will need to rollback both packages).

I did a test run and the compilation went off without a hitch, please post back if you're still having problems building the packages. It's probably best to see if a bug is already posted with Nvidia for this issue with 173.14.12 and report it if not.

cheers,

Last edited by somedrew (2008-09-10 00:25:20)

Ekimino

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

Nice, you got me looking at abs, that was what i was missing!. now i still have compilation problems.here it goes.

/home/jsanchez/builds/nvidia/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1839: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[3]: *** [/home/jsanchez/builds/nvidia/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nv.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/jsanchez/builds/nvidia/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg0/usr/src/nv] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.

Last edited by Ekimino (2008-09-10 02:40:42)

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somedrew

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

Please try using the -pkg1.run file from my above link, not the -pkg0.run file.
Edit:

source=(http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-$ARCH/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-$ARCH-${pkgver}-pkg0.run)

to:

source=(http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-$ARCH/${pkgver}/NVIDIA-Linux-$ARCH-${pkgver}-pkg1.run)

in both nvidia and nvidia-utils PKGBUILDS (or change the link I posted above if using the ftp link).

EDIT: jumped the gun on the original post and didn't include PKBGUILD changes. The -pkg1.run should compile nicely for you.

Last edited by somedrew (2008-09-10 06:18:10)

Ekimino

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

I already tried using the pkg1 version, but the same thing happened. now, this time i tried compiling it with the correct nvidia-utils version. but still the same thing hapened. Ill attach my PKGBUILDS.

PKGBUILD nvidia
PKGBUILD nvidia-utils

btw: nvidia-utils complied just fine.

2nd Edit:

I saw this error on the compiling screen.

test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (        \
    echo;                                \
    echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";        \
    echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";    \
    echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";    \
    echo;                                \
    /bin/false)

ok, I've tried running "make oldconfig && make prepare" but "make prepare" fails with the following:

bash-3.2# make prepare
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'.  Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

do you mind, running it again to check if that happens to you?. Thank you

Last edited by Ekimino (2008-09-10 22:30:50)

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somedrew

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

do you mind, running it again to check if that happens to you?.

The problems turns out to be on my end Your PKBGUIDS are fine, but I was testing the (successful) compilation against an old 2.6.23-rt kernel. When I tried to build the module against 2.6.26-ARCH I received the same error in your second post. Nvidia-utils just copies over some of the files from the the .run so that's why it wasn't crapping out.

It appears that 169.12 is incompatible with 2.6.25 and onwards. Nvidia released some patches to get it running against 2.6.25 but nothing later (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088). Have you tried using the new 177.70 beta driver (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118602)? If that doesn't fix the issue it would be best to report it with them.

cheers,

Last edited by somedrew (2008-09-12 08:49:23)

Ekimino

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

I've tried using the 177.70 but still the same thing, now im gonna kill Xorg and ssh my machine and run nvidia-bug-report script and report a bug. I'm going to try using abs to recompile my kernel to 2.6.23 to run those nvidia drivers. Is there anyway that i can do a system update, without updating certain package?. Thank you for your time somedrew.
oodbye

I tried not to misstype, but its 8 am and i just arrived home and I'm kinda drunk. Goodbye

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somedrew

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Re: nVidia Drivers - share a specific version of nvidia drivers - 9500M GS

To prevent updates to packages with a system update you can list them in the 'IgnorePkg =' line in your /etc/pacman.conf
If you'd like a newer kernel than 2.6.23 for whatever reason, you should be able to get away with 2.6.25 using the patch mentioned in my link above.
Hope the newer drivers work for you soon,
cheers