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tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

I installed the 169.07-1 from testing, and it is running the fan speed at 100% speed all the time, on a 8800gts. I tried pacman -R nvidia, which removed the driver, and installed the driver from extra. But im unable to get back into X, I get "failed to initialize the nvidia device" and "failed to load "type1" module". I was wondering how to completely remove the driver to use an older driver. Thanks.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

U have to reload the other nvidia driver.

So u have to do...

pacman -S extra/nvidia

then reboot

to make sure u get the old drive back. Or u could use pacman -U switch and install the old package in the cache, then reboot

every time u change the video driver u have to always install something, u can't just un-install.

"failed to load "type1" module".

did you alter your xorg.conf? Maybe u should regenerate one of those with X --configure and alter from there to use nvidia driver again like u did when u installed arch.

edit: thanks for letting me know 169 drivers where in testing, I been waiting on these. cheers!

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-10 15:11:35)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

hmm, I just tried to install the new drivers 169 and I see it didn't find any conflicts with the old nvidia drivers or nvidia-utils and it should have.

The link on the search page also shows that a dependency of the nvidia 169 driver is nvidia-utils 100. I wonder if this is a mistake in the package? I wonder if u had the right version of nvidia-utils installed? that may explain why the fan wasn't working correctly.

Can anyone explain this? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/14599/ click on the dependency link and it links to utils 100 and that's not right, but that doesn't make it wrong when installing. However, I don't get any conflicts when trying to install nvidia 169 while nvidia 100 drivers are still installed through pacman version 3.1. Can anyone else verify this?

[jasin@kermit ~]$ pacman -Q | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-utils 100.14.19-2
nvidia 100.14.19-6
nvidia-utils 100.14.19-2
[jasin@kermit ~]$ sudo pacman -S testing/nvidia
Password: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: nvidia-169.07-1  

Total Download Size:    2.70 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

doesn't look right to me.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-10 15:20:39)

tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

thanks jacko, all is working again.

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

[jasin@kermit ~]$ pacman -Q | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-utils 100.14.19-2
nvidia 100.14.19-6
nvidia-utils 100.14.19-2
[jasin@kermit ~]$ sudo pacman -S testing/nvidia
Password: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: nvidia-169.07-1  

Total Download Size:    2.70 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

doesn't look right to me.

It isn't right! pacman -S testing/nvidia will only pull nvidia, not nvidia-utils, which is necessary. I should probably add versioned depends for that. The file conflict will occur on nvidia-utils only.

darkarchon

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From: Israel

Registered: 2007-02-28

Posts: 44

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

To fix your fan speed back to 'auto' you can use nvclock:
nvclock -f -F auto
For 8800gts you actually need nvclock-cvs from AUR.

mrB

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 28

Re: nvidia 169.07-1 fan speed

This is a really annoying bug; hope nvidia will fix it in the next release.