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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Nvidia is missing libwfb

Hello

I've just installed the latest nvidia beta driver from aur, when I start the xserver, I get this messages:

dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libwfb.so: undefined Symbol: PictureScree
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libwfb.so
(EE) Failed to load module "wfb" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found

Anyone encountered this to?

libwfb.so exist in /usr/lib/xorg/modules.

Last edited by Roberth (2008-10-04 16:59:01)

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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

yes I am also experiencing the same issue, did you find a solution

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

Are you using the xorg-server package from testing?
This is from a comment on nvidia-utils-beta aur page:

"The libnvidia-wfb.so shipped in the .run package is only intended for X servers that don't have their own libwfb.so and is not expected to work on ones that do."

The xorg-server package from testing does provide its own libwfb.so.

To get rid these errors I had to rebuild nvidia-utils-beta package without the nvidia.install script -- this, basically, prevents nvidia-utils-beta package from forcing xorg to use the nvidia version of libwfb.so.

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

yes iam using xorg 1.5 how did u rebuild the oackage without nvidia.install script?

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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

Just comment out this in the PKGBUILD:

install=nvidia.install

Build and install the package, and reinstall xorg-server, simply done like this:

pacman -S xorg-server

Now X should be able to start, at least for me.

Last edited by Roberth (2008-10-05 11:50:00)

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

with nvidia-beta, did you also install nvidia-utils-beta?

- you have to exit out of X (ctrl-alt-f1 to go to a terminal, i suggest you log out of your session first)
- make sure kdm/gdm isnt running (/etc/rc.d/kdm stop as root)
- then yaourt -Rd nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta (to remove old version)
- as root, rmmod nvidia (remove the kernel module)
- then yaourt -S nvidia-utils-beta nvidia-beta (i have to do them one at a time, nvidia-utils-beta first)
- as root modprobe nvidia
- as root /etc/rc.d/kdm start

this should reload X and kdm (switch to whatever manager you use, if any, but the idea is to do it outside of X)

reinstalling X should be a last resort.  i get a message on installing nvidia-utils-beta that libwfb is no longer needed and the symlink is removed automatically

Last edited by toxygen (2008-10-12 20:33:01)

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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Nvidia is missing libwfb

i've solved this by changing the symlink libwfb.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules from pointing to libnvidia-wfb.so.180.06 to libwfb.so.1.4

btw, i'm waiting for the update of the nvidia-beta pkgbuild, because a new version is out (180.08)

Last edited by Berseker (2008-11-18 17:28:21)