[SOLVED] startx flashes nVidia logo then BLACKNESS

jasonwryan · 2014-12-12 05:52:55

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

itman · 2014-12-12 06:57:32

To limit further confusions, why not post the output of pacman - xorg related and mesa related?

BoomZooka · 2014-12-12 17:59:05

iv got to look into how to do that. but if anyone reads this prior to me responding again with that output and wants to give me a hint ill take it lol.

mrunion · 2014-12-12 18:19:44

pacman -Qs <package name> // or partial name

For example, to see what is installed with "nvidia" in the name:

pacman -Qs nvidia

\hbar · 2014-12-12 19:00:42

You should check out a few of the sections in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

BoomZooka · 2014-12-12 19:08:56

/hbar , mrunion : i figured it out with that exact page prior to making it back=) thanks for the guidance though.

nVidia output of pacman -Qs nvidia

local/nvidia-340xx 340.58-2
    NVIDIA drivers for linux, 340xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.65-1
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
local/nvidia-340xx-utils 340.58-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvidia-bl 0.17.3-7
    Driver to adjust display backlight on modern mobile NVidia graphics adapters.

Mesa output of pacman -Qs mesa

local/libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-5
    S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) library for Mesa
local/mesa 10.3.5-1
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/mesa-dri 10.3.5-1
    Mesa DRI drivers

and in /usr/lib i only have libEGL.so not libEGL.so.1

Last edited by BoomZooka (2014-12-12 19:38:30)

mrunion · 2014-12-13 00:58:53

On my system, linEGL.so.1 is owned by nvidia-libgl. I would reinstall nvidia-340xx-libgl because that file is part of the package according to https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … 0xx-libgl/

BoomZooka · 2014-12-13 02:27:06

re installed nvidia-340xx-libgl

still only have libEGL.so but not libEGL.so.1

is there anyway to download or create this file independently?

rebootl · 2014-12-13 12:30:25

I think you just had really bad luck when reinstalling nvidia-340xx-libgl.
Note the versions in your output above, they're not the same for your different nvidia packages (340.58-2 and 340.65-1).

Update with 'pacman -Syu' !

If it still doesn't work maybe reinstall all your nvidia packages.

Resauce · 2014-12-13 13:13:15

please post the output of

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/nvidia/libE*

and

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/libE*

and

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/libG*

rebootl wrote:

Update with 'pacman -Syu' !

I think we should reduce the risk, to completly mess up his machine https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_packages .

Last edited by Resauce (2014-12-13 13:19:56)

rebootl · 2014-12-13 14:06:22

Resauce, partial updates are unsupported: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nsupported

'pacman -Syu' _is the way_ to update your system.
It should be issued on a regular base (e.g. daily, weekly).

The warning in the wiki means that you should not do it, just before you have something important to do, e.g. a presentation.

Also see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_commands

I believe that you were able to solve this on your topic, but how exactly did you do ?
Did you create symlinks manually ? If you did, this is actually something that you shouldn't do...

BoomZooka · 2014-12-13 17:15:08

rebootl: i did a system update via pacman -Syu , the resulting update updated my nvidia stuff but it did not fix the issue. i am including the updated list of installed nvidia and mesa stuff.

current nVidia

local/nvidia-340xx 340.65-3
    NVIDIA drivers for linux, 340xx legacy branch
local/nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.65-1
    NVIDIA drivers libraries symlinks
local/nvidia-340xx-utils 340.65-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvidia-bl 0.17.3-7
    Driver to adjust display backlight on modern mobile NVidia graphics adapters.

current Mesa

local/libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-5
    S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) library for Mesa
local/mesa 10.3.5-1
    an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/mesa-dri 10.3.5-1
    Mesa DRI drivers

Resauce: here are the outputs you asked for.

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/nvidia/libE*

funny to note that the nvidia folder does have the libEGL.so.1 that I seem to be missing, but its still showing in the openbox log i created that libEGL.so.1 is not found

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 Dec 11 14:19 /usr/lib/nvidia/libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Dec 11 14:19 /usr/lib/nvidia/libEGL.so.1 -> libEGL.so.340.65
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 987736 Dec 11 14:19 /usr/lib/nvidia/libEGL.so.340.65

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/libE*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 11 14:21 /usr/lib/libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.340.65

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/libG*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 11 14:21 /usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so -> libGLESv1_CM.so.340.65
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 11 14:21 /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so -> libGLESv2.so.340.65
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 11 14:21 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.340.65

Resauce · 2014-12-13 17:41:57

BoomZooka wrote:

sudo ls -la /usr/lib/libE*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 11 14:21 /usr/lib/libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.340.65

type

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia/libEGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libEGL.so.1

reboot and then post what openbox log says (unless it is not the same output).

openbox log might say that it can't find libGL.so.1 either.

Last edited by Resauce (2014-12-13 17:46:44)

BoomZooka · 2014-12-13 18:10:05

you were right that is said it couldn't find the libGL.so.1

so I assume i would just run the same command, but substitute libGL.so.1 instead

edit: i ran the same command with libGL.so.1

IT WORKED! X IS ALIIIIIIVE!!

Thank you so much guys!!!!!!

resauce , hbar , trilby , reboot , mrunion , itman I really appreciate all the time you guys took to help me with this problem.

Last edited by BoomZooka (2014-12-13 18:39:33)

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