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aka1g

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Registered: 2013-05-14

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

Hi fellow archers!
Today my system broke after the update. log: http://pastebin.com/qGNKYphc
The symptoms: 2nd monitor was no longer working, not detected via xrandr. I decided that smth is wrong with nvidia, I tried to install nvidia-dkms and ended up with unbootable system when lightdm was in a loop complaining that libGL and some other libs from nvidia-libgl package are not existing. The symlinks for some reason where dead.
from the nvidia wiki page it seems that the proper driver should be nvidia-340xx, but it brings dead symlinks along, so  I reinstalled the versions i had earlier

iam[19:18:01]:~% pacman -Q | grep nvid                  
lib32-nvidia-libgl 343.22-1
lib32-nvidia-utils 343.22-1
nvidia 343.22-4
nvidia-libgl 343.22-1
nvidia-utils 343.22-1

Now I'm back to the original issue: xrandr not detecting my 2nd monitor, I have video issues on screen - like repainting the window titles on mouse move etc.
my xorg: http://pastebin.com/hbfdxFFp
please advice..

Last edited by aka1g (2014-11-18 13:17:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

[    29.179] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M GPU installed in this system is
[    29.179] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 340.xx Legacy drivers. Please
[    29.179] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
[    29.179] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     information.  The 343.22 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
[    29.179] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     GPU.  Continuing probe... 

Install the nvidia340 drivers, what's the exact issue with them? which broken symlinks are you talking about? what happens if you install those instead of the clearly not working standard drivers?

aka1g

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Registered: 2013-05-14

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

I get an endless lightdm loop, greeter.log says that libEGL.so.1 (if remember correctly) doesn't exist. /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1 is a symlync to a non existent file, so are other nvidia-libgl modules.
I installed 340xx ver through the mesa-libgl intermediate, since the nvidia-libgl  has dependencies and it wont allow to remove it. Then replaced mesa-libgl with nvidia-libgl again. Anything wrong in this setup?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

there's an nvidia340xx-libgl as well, uninstall your existing installation with the -Rdds switch like so:

pacman -Rdds lib32-nvidia-libgl lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia nvidia-libgl  nvidia-utils mesa-libgl #If you still have that installed
pacman -S  nvidia-340xx-libgl  nvidia-340xx-utils nvidia-340xx lib32-nvidia-340xx-libgl lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … ng_drivers (also look at the nouveau example below, thats what we are doing now, except without nouveau

Last edited by V1del (2014-11-17 19:01:16)

aka1g

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Registered: 2013-05-14

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

Thx a lot for the tip and for trying to help! Thought there must be smth like dd switch, but didn't find it on man in Remove section..:)
Will try it as soon as I'm in the office, teamviewer isn't passing thru for some reason..

aka1g

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Registered: 2013-05-14

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA issues: modules empty or monitor not detected.

And yes, this worked! I appreciate your help!