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lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

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Latest update to nVidia driver crashes graphics

Last update yesterday included the new nVidia driver (325.15-1), upgraded from 319.32-1. That breaks any graphics programs and screen goes weird and system completely freezes, requiring a cold boot.

I rolled back to old driver - all seems fine at the moment. Xorg logs tell me nothing. Chipset is nVidia C77 (GeForce 8200).

Any ideas on what I can do about this?

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lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: Latest update to nVidia driver crashes graphics

Still having nVidia driver problems. I tried downgrading to 319, having to use -Ud to get pacman to install nvidia-utils but that was even worse - borked my system almost completely. Is there a better way to easily downgrade the 3 required packages (nvidia-utils, nvidia-libgl and nvidia)?

Thanks in advance....

Larry

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catseye

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Registered: 2009-03-09

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Re: Latest update to nVidia driver crashes graphics

Hello,

I rolled back to old driver - all seems fine at the moment. Xorg logs tell me nothing. Chipset is nVidia C77 (GeForce 8200).

take a look at my recent post in this forum.  It seems you have that same problem that I had with the recent nVidia driver update.

Last edited by catseye (2013-08-16 05:55:40)