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Kyle Carter

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Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 91

[SOLVED] Xserver/Nvidia broken after -Syu

Sorry to post a thread about this, I know there are a variety of similar ones, but all the solutions that worked for everyone else do NOT seem to work for me. I'm using:

kernel26 2.6.24.3-3
nvidia 169.12-1

When I try to login to a GUI, be it GDM or KDM, it crashes back to the CLI with the explanation that it can't find the Nvidia kernel module.

When I modprobe nvidia, i get:

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.24-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): No such device

Here's my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
#   Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic E790-3"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 95.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nv"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce FX 5500"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "backingstore" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Also, when I installed nvidia, it gave me a message as follows:

ERROR: Module nvidia does not exist in /proc/modules
In order to use the new nvidia module, exit Xserver and unload it manually.

I HAVE rebooted, I HAVE tried the packages from the core/extra/testing repositories to no avail. I'm currently using the "nv" module, but is pretty lacking. Thanks for any help.

Last edited by Kyle Carter (2008-03-05 23:23:04)

Kyle Carter

Member

Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 91

Re: [SOLVED] Xserver/Nvidia broken after -Syu

SOLVED: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44596