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ChaManO

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From: Pozuelo de Alarcón

Registered: 2015-09-22

Posts: 29

[SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

Hello

My computer has a single GTX-580 in the 16x PCIe socket.

The output of

 lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 

is

 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 580] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8385
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

My current drivers are the nvidia-304xx and nvidia-304xx-libgl:

 sudo pacman -Q | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-304xx-libgl 304.125-1
lib32-nvidia-304xx-utils 304.125-1
nvidia-304xx 304.125-23
nvidia-304xx-libgl 304.125-1
nvidia-304xx-utils 304.125-1
opencl-nvidia 352.41-1 

(I forgot to remove OpenCL)

In the NVIDIA wiki page it says that for cards 400 and up the drivers should be the ones in the nvidia and nvidia-libgl packages.

Unfortunately, if I install those packages (and remove the 304xx, as they are incompatible), in the next boot, just after systemd does its thing (display something along the lines of "Starting Version 224", and then check my file system) the screen turns black, but then goes back to the systemd screen instead of leading to the gnome greeter, as it does with the "older" drivers.

My update was done with

pacman -S

, and then rebooting. I later tried running

nvidia-xconfig

in a tty, and then start x, but it didn't work.

I'd appreciate if you could tell me if I'm missing something.

Thanks!

Last edited by ChaManO (2015-09-23 18:14:37)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,167

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

When was your last pacman -Syu ?
Do you have other videocards in your system, like an intel one ?

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ChaManO

Member

From: Pozuelo de Alarcón

Registered: 2015-09-22

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

Hi
I try to pacman -Syu almost daily.
There is nothing external and I'm almost certain that a Q9300 has no integrated video. The xf86-video-intel package is not installed, but somehow lib32-mesa and mesa are. Should I get rid of those two?

Thank you

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,263

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

xorg logs and

sudo journalctl --unit=gdm

  please and gdm issues with nvidia are somewhat notorious have you tried something simpler i.e. startx or similar? Might also be a case of gdm wanting to start wayland which doesn't work with nvidia drivers: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

Last edited by V1del (2015-09-23 17:35:28)

ChaManO

Member

From: Pozuelo de Alarcón

Registered: 2015-09-22

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

please and gdm issues with nvidia are somewhat notorious have you tried something simpler i.e. startx or similar? Might also be a case of gdm wanting to start wayland which doesn't work with nvidia drivers: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

Oh boy, this was it.
I uncommented the line the fix mentions, and I'm apparently using Xorg now, the nvidia and nvidia-libgl now work.
My logs are full of failures, but that's for another time.

Thank you both a lot!

Lucas

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,263

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia drivers for GTX-580

No problem, don't forget to prepend [SOLVED] to the title by editing your initial post