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IamLuke

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Registered: 2010-04-02

Posts: 6

GDM won't start after changing the video card to Nvidia FX 570M

Hi all,

I have changed my video card to Nvidia Quadro FX 570M from Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M and I cannot start gdm since then.

I have tried to reinstall the nvidia package and even Xorg, didn't help. I also tried to install the Nvidia official driver from the website manually, which didn't help either.

I would really appreciate your help!

when I tried to use "startx", there are errors:

ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter(see dmesg)

Fatal server error:
no screens found

....
Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit;giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

Result of "pacman -Qs nvidia" is shown below:

local/libcl 1.1-3
          OpenCL library and ICD loader from NVIDiA
local/libvdpau 0.5-1
          NVIDia VDPAU library
local/nvclock 0.8b4-3
          A small utility which allows users to overclock NVIDIA based video cards.
local/nvidia  304.43-1
          NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/nvidia-utils 304.43-1
          NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries
local/opencl-nvidia 304.43-1
          openCL implementation for NVIDIA