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GSF1200S

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 474

Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

I have had this issue with 2 prior installs of Arch linux within the last 2 months. I installed today, setup the system, and went to reboot. The kernel hangs at:

Waiting for Udev uevents to be processed...

I can wait an hour and nothing happens. I added !nvidia in the rc.conf module line from another install, rebooted, and it had no issues getting to the login. I logged in as root and ran:

modprobe nvidia

and nothing (sat there without a new prompt attempting to load module). I cant even change tty's- all I can do is Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot...

Im am running 64bit arch on an Nvidia 9800GTX+. I am not using the testing repos, and I am completely up to date. This issue has occurred now for a few months. Sidux and Xubuntu (both using the Nvidia 195 drivers) boot fine and the video card has no issues. Anyone have any ideas?

Here is what the kernel log spits out when I try to modprobe nvidia:

May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 24
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: nvidia 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:02:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: vgaarb: transferring owner from PCI:0000:02:00.0 to PCI:0000:03:00.0
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: nvidia 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 30 (level, low) -> IRQ 30
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: nvidia 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:03:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
May  4 22:41:17 geekdom kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  195.36.15  Fri Mar 12

Thats the last line in kernel log.

**EDIT** to change the thread title to without instead of with.

Last edited by GSF1200S (2010-05-05 04:16:49)

BlackIkeEagle

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Registered: 2008-09-24

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Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

did you install nouveau alongside with nvidia ?

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GSF1200S

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 474

Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

did you install nouveau alongside with nvidia ?

No I did not. I simply installed all the stuff for X as follows:

pacman -Sy nvidia xorg hal dbus

then ran nvidia-xconfig to update Xorg. I shouldnt have to install nouveau should I?

biplust

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Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 7

Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

problem with nvidia 195.36.xx and kernel 2.6.3x>2.6.31 look at this topic:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95802

GSF1200S

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 474

Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

problem with nvidia 195.36.xx and kernel 2.6.3x>2.6.31 look at this topic:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95802

Thank you for the link.. sorry I missed this. Thats exactly the issue Im having.

jwbirdsong

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From: Western KS USA

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 173

Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

I simply installed all the stuff for X as follows:

pacman -Sy nvidia xorg hal dbus

Bad, bad habit

Read HERE

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GSF1200S

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Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 474

Re: Kernel wont boot without !nvidia in rc.conf; cannot modprobe nvidia

I simply installed all the stuff for X as follows:

pacman -Sy nvidia xorg hal dbus

Bad, bad habit

Read HERE

Usually I do -Sy and then -S the packages, so at least I dont usually do it. I had no idea this was a bad thing though.. thanks for the link.