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toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

[SOLVED] How to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 drivers

Hi All,

Currently I have installed xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16_git20110829-1 drivers in my Arch Linux but I would like to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 in kernel 3.1.1-1-ARCH.

Each time I have tried to install nvidia drivers I have had a lot of problems: the worst is that once installed I reboot system and X does not start, screen goes black, etc so I am afraid to install it because then I have a lot of problems to goes back nouveau and to get X starts again.

So could anyone say me step by step how to install it with success and that once I reboot my system you ensure me X starts?

And a step by step guide in case X does not starts and I need to come back nouveau again and start X normaly without problems.

Thx.

Last edited by toni (2011-11-16 23:34:31)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [SOLVED] How to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 drivers

So could anyone say me step by step how to install it with success and that once I reboot my system you ensure me X starts?

And a step by step guide in case X does not starts and I need to come back nouveau again and start X normaly without problems.

Thx.

What did your last slave die of?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] How to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 drivers

What did your last slave die of?

Epic!
<donkey-style "laughter">

@toni
Did you install the nvidia 285 drivers from the repos? Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … au_drivers ?
Can you post some logs when the nvidia drivers are failing? What card do you have?

Last edited by karol (2011-11-16 21:43:20)

toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

Re: [SOLVED] How to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 drivers

So could anyone say me step by step how to install it with success and that once I reboot my system you ensure me X starts?

And a step by step guide in case X does not starts and I need to come back nouveau again and start X normaly without problems.

Thx.

What did your last slave die of?

Hi,

I only remember that when booting, nvidia logo appeared flashing several times (aprox. 3) like trying to start X and finally it was not able to start from X and a black screen appeared with cursor blinking at the top left corner so at this point the only solution was to do CTRL+ALT+F2 to go to terminal. With black screen I tried to change to graphical mode by pressing CTRL+ALT+F7. Also I tried CTRL+ALT+F8 but with no success.

Thx.

toni

Member

Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

Re: [SOLVED] How to install nvidia 285.05.09-3 drivers

What did your last slave die of?

Epic!
<donkey-style "laughter">

@toni
Did you install the nvidia 285 drivers from the repos? Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … au_drivers ?
Can you post some logs when the nvidia drivers are failing? What card do you have?

Hi Karol,

I have just installed nvidia 285 from repos taking into account the link you provided. I follow the steps mentioned in the script to change from nouveau to nvidia and it went Ok. Now I have installed nvidia drivers from repos and at boot-up, X starts correctly (SOLVED).

I think when I installed nvidia in the past one thing was missed: (I did not do this)

/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/mkinitcpio -p linux

....Maybe that was the problem.

My graphic card is Nvidia Go7600.

Thx again

Last edited by toni (2011-11-16 23:34:04)