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#1 2011-10-15 17:27:59
- mueslo
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[fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
Hi, I recently ran a full system upgrade (pacman -Syu) on my Laptop (Thinkpad T510, has a Nvidia Quadro NVS 3100M).
If I remember correctly, nvidia and nvidia-utils was among the upgraded items, to 285.05.09.
Until I restarted my laptop last night, everything was fine, but now the X-Server fails to start with the following error message: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module.
(See http://pastebin.com/UVC4PVya for full X.org.0.log)
My X.org server version is 1.11.1, my graphics card is supported by the 285.05.09 driver and my kernel version is 3.0.6.
Does anyone have an idea what the error might be due to exactly and how to fix it?
Thanks a lot,
mueslo.
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#2 2011-10-15 17:35:16
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
do dmesg and paste the log
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#3 2011-10-15 17:47:59
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
Oops, I forgot about that 
dmesg tells me
API mismatch: the client has the version 285.05.09, but this kernel module has the version 280.13.
I'm pretty unsure how this could happen while using pacman.
If I'm not completely mistaken, the kernel module is from the package nvidia, but pacman -Q nvidia tells me nvidia is at 285.05.09-1.
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#4 2011-10-15 18:15:38
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
bsdtar -t -f /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep nvidia
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#5 2011-10-15 19:56:30
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
output is:
./lib/modules/3.0-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko.gz
Edit: I rebuilt my initramfs, works again.
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#6 2011-10-15 20:02:09
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
remove nvidia from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate the image with mkinitcpio -p linux
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#7 2011-10-15 20:04:23
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Re: [fixed] Nvidia / X-Server issues
I atually just did that as you were replying, thanks 
Edit: though I didn't remove nvidia from the config.
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