[solved] Nvidia driver don't update with kernel

hoome · 2013-08-31 12:11:13

Hi,

I've updated Arch Linux kernel from 3.10.9-1 to 3.10.10-1 and when i reboot the system,the nvidia driver stop working.

Making the usual workarounds like running nvidia-xconfig but nothing, the X can't load the nvidia module.

So i've tryed to load the module by myself, and the modprobe gave me the beautiful error:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Exec format error

i think that is that the nvidia driver isn't updated with the kernel, i tryed to reinstall the driver but nothing, i'm thinking to install dkms and nvidia-hook,but, i'm afraid that this just broke the nvidia package and the updates.

Also, in the nvidia driver we are already at 319.49, and the repository version is 319.15.

Last edited by hoome (2013-08-31 12:25:21)

graysky · 2013-08-31 12:15:29

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169110

digirium · 2013-08-31 12:19:57

Same problem, nvidia drivers not loading after the same kernel upgrade as the OP.

Temporarily resolved it by downgrading kernel and headers although acknowledging now that nvidia in testing would be fine too. Will wait for nvidia to be pushed before upgrading kernel + headers again. Thanks!

hoome · 2013-08-31 12:24:17

thanks @graysky,

@digirium Just installing nvidia from testing solve my problem.

In my case i don't wan't to update to testing packages so i'm uncomment testing from repositories, give a -Syy, installed the nvidia-319-15 again and comment the testing repositories again (without upgrading the system).

The only disavantage is that pacman now says that nvidia package is newer than from the repositories, but that isn't really a problem

Last edited by hoome (2013-08-31 12:28:28)

graysky · 2013-08-31 12:27:10

Dunno why linux kernel packages got moved to core without the supporting packages moving to extra.

@hoome-you can also cherry pick the package with

pacman -U http://server.com/blah/package.pkg.tar.xz

No need to enable the testing repo, update and such... Just be sure you get all the needed packages in this manor, since it's just nvidia, there is only one. Had it need a major nvidia update, ie a new version of the driver, you would have to do the nvidia-utils package in this manor as well.

Last edited by graysky (2013-08-31 12:30:14)

hoome · 2013-08-31 12:32:54

@graysky i didn't think of that.

Thanks again

To make people life's easy, following the tip from @graysky, just type:

for x86:

pacman -U http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/testing/os/i686/nvidia-325.15-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz

for x64:

pacman -U http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/nvidia-325.15-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by hoome (2013-08-31 12:37:57)

digirium · 2013-08-31 13:03:29

Thanks @hoome that does the trick.

I am back on kernel 3.10.10-1 using nvidia testing using http exactly as you mentioned.

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[solved] Nvidia driver don't update with kernel

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