[Solved] Upgrade of new kernel broke my nvidia

kabads · 2015-01-16 20:18:48

OK, long time running arch, but with a new laptop. Which means I'm running nvidia-beta to get the new nvidia card running. However, yesterday, there was a kernel upgrade. The wiki refers to a recompile. I've reinstalled both nvidia-beta-utils and nvidia-beta, but still not working. I tried to modprobe nvidia but nothing is reported (even after reboot). Any tips?

Last edited by kabads (2015-01-16 21:47:15)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-16 21:07:06

kabads wrote:

OK, long time running arch, but with a new laptop. Which means I'm running nvidia-beta to get the new nvidia card running. However, yesterday, there was a kernel upgrade. The wiki refers to a recompile. I've reinstalled both nvidia-beta-utils and nvidia-beta, but still not working. I tried to modprobe nvidia but nothing is reported (even after reboot). Any tips?

Which kernel upgrade was it? 3.17.6 -> 3.18.2? If it was that, I'd rebuild the package entirely against 3.18 and the install it and see if that makes a difference.

kabads · 2015-01-16 21:16:32

It was the 3.18.2-2-ARCH - I've had to change some of the extramodules flags in nvidia.install and PKGBUILD to get these to compile, which they seem to have done successfully. However, they don't seem to load (with modprobe nvidia). I'm not sure why they're not loading. Everything seems to build OK.

WorMzy · 2015-01-16 21:23:44

Please post the output of the following:

# modinfo nvidia

pacman -Ql nvidia-beta

# modprobe nvidia; dmesg | tail

EDIT: don't use && dmesg as I originally suggested, it'll not tell us much if modprobe fails.

Last edited by WorMzy (2015-01-16 21:28:27)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-16 21:32:31

I have no idea, since I don't know what the changes you made to the files are. I just downloaded the PKGBUILDs from the AUR (yup, Det updated them in the last 24 hours. Try those) and those build for me (using a chroot). However, as I don't have an nVidia card, I can't test whether it works.

Could you maybe pull out some X server logs and reports from journalctl from the boots X isn't starting? <= Ninja'd by WorMzy.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2015-01-16 21:33:19)

kabads · 2015-01-16 21:36:51

Modprobe and modinfo are failing to find nvidia -

pacman command gave:

nvidia-beta /usr/
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modprobe.d/
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modules/
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.17-ARCH/
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.17-ARCH/nvidia-uvm.ko.gz
nvidia-beta /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.17-ARCH/nvidia.ko.gz

clfarron4 · 2015-01-16 21:40:44

I'd take the tarball from the AUR website and re-build it with that because that puts the modules in extramodules-3.18-ARCH, not extramodules-3.17-ARCH. Well, it put them in extramodules-3.18-ARCH when I built it in a chroot.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2015-01-16 21:41:49)

kabads · 2015-01-16 21:48:23

OK, so redownloading the new packages from aur and installing those worked (I could see the nvidia part compiling, which it didn't do before). Thanks for all the support here. I've marked this one as solved. Now, I just need to look at automating this (if possible) with a hook. Perhaps tomorrow - it's late here.

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[Solved] Upgrade of new kernel broke my nvidia

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