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bobmugulie

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From: Cambridge, MA

Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Can't start X after kernel and nvidia upgrade

After recently performing a system upgrade that upgraded the kernel and my nvidia drivers, I can't get X11 to start.

Here are the possibly relevant upgrades pacman performed:

[2009-04-09 15:38] upgraded kernel26-firmware (2.6.28-1 -> 2.6.29-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.28.8-1 -> 2.6.29.1-3)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded klibc-udev (140-1 -> 141-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded libcddb (1.3.0-3 -> 1.3.2-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] installed libftdi (0.15-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded lirc-utils (0.8.4-1 -> 0.8.5pre2-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded nvidia-utils (180.29-3 -> 180.44-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] In order to use the new nvidia module, exit Xserver and unload it manually.
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded nvidia (180.29-3 -> 180.44-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded tzdata (2009d-1 -> 2009e-1)
[2009-04-09 15:39] upgraded udev (140-2 -> 141-1)

X11 spat this out when I tried to start it (from the log file):

(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 565
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I realized that I should have upgraded from outside a graphical environment, so I exited X11 and reinstalled nvidia with pacman -S nvidia, but it didn't help. I can run X if I create a new xorg.conf with hwd, but if I run nvidia-xconfig, it spits out the same error again.

Last edited by bobmugulie (2009-04-09 21:38:15)

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bobmugulie

Member

From: Cambridge, MA

Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Can't start X after kernel and nvidia upgrade

aaah never mind, it magically solved itself after a reboot. I should have tried that first >_<

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hbekel

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 311

Re: [SOLVED] Can't start X after kernel and nvidia upgrade

nvm

Last edited by hbekel (2009-04-10 10:44:21)