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sysboy

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Registered: 2005-08-04

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X11 broke after upgrade

Ok I have just run a pacman -Syu. I changed the boot file to use initrd as instructed. arch boots fine but when I startx it tells me Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! So I ran a pacman -S nvidia. And I downloaded a new driver but ... it gave me this when it tried to install ...

You hav e to shutdown Xserver to finish installation! You hav eto rerun 'pacman -S nvidia'
Fatal: Module nvidia not found.

Can anyone help ?

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: X11 broke after upgrade

just to verify, you ran pacman -S nvidia from the console *after* X crashed, not inside an X session that didn't use the nvidia driver?

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sysboy

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Registered: 2005-08-04

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Re: X11 broke after upgrade

I was out of x when I can pacman -S nvidia.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: X11 broke after upgrade

Are you using kernel  2.6.14.4-2? If not, upgrade to that version. It's supposed to solve a nvidia problem.

sysboy

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Registered: 2005-08-04

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Re: X11 broke after upgrade

yep just did that. works great thanks all

o2bfishn

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Registered: 2005-12-22

Posts: 53

Re: X11 broke after upgrade

hey all, been away from arch for awhile (not by choice) and used to be on here as jerrym, but anyway...

i have this issue as well. would the upgraded kernel fix this issue if you use the nvidia-legacy driver? the 2.6.14.4-2 kernel is in current right? thats the one i am using (it says 2.6.14-arch though when uname -r is used)

i did a new full (not just base) install using .7.1 pre-1 and am synched up to current and extra

also changing the driver back to nv works.

o2bfishn

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Registered: 2005-12-22

Posts: 53

Re: X11 broke after upgrade

found this post and added nvidia to the daemons section of my rc.conf and all is right with the world again