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_Mike_

Member

Registered: 2005-03-09

Posts: 30

Xorg won't start after upgrading nvidia-utils

Today I did a pacman -Syu , it wanted to upgrade nvidia-utils, I said yes and it told me it would remove nvidia package as it conflict with, so I let it remove nvidia pakage.
Then Xorg didn't wanted to start. I reinstalled nvidia and received the following error:

Error: API mismatch: The NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-8178, but this X module has the version 1.0-8762
Please make sure kernel module and all Nvidia components have the same version

Then I removed nvidia and nvidia-utils and reinstalled them, now I receive the following error when trying to start Xorg:

Fatal: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.16.18-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
Failed to load nvidia kernel module!

How do I fix this? I'm using my own compiled kernel version (2.6.16.18) and Xorg worked find before doing  pacman -Syu and updating nvidia-utils.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Xorg won't start after upgrading nvidia-utils

If you use a custom kernel, you'll need to compile your own nvidia modules: http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#238

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Xorg won't start after upgrading nvidia-utils

update 'nvidia' and reboot.