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I am a new Arch user and I just installed today coming from Ubuntu 9.10, installation was smooth and have gnome running. Everything seems to be working overall, but I can't seem to get my Nvidia drivers installed, according to the Arch wiki I sould install with pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils. However, that gives an error about the package not being found and installing the drivers of the Nvidia site says that I am using Arch 32-bit. That has me confused because I thought that Arch i686 was 64-bit, how can I tell if I am using 64-bit Arch? and how do I install the Nvidia drivers?
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Last edited by dcj123 (2009-12-28 23:52:55)
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i686=32bit
x86_64=64bit
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i686 is 32 bit. The "uname -a" command will confirm it.
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Hello,
I am a new Arch user and I just installed today coming from Ubuntu 9.10, installation was smooth and have gnome running. Everything seems to be working overall, but I can't seem to get my Nvidia drivers installed, according to the Arch wiki I sould install with pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils. However, that gives an error about the package not being found and installing the drivers of the Nvidia site says that I am using Arch 32-bit. That has me confused because I thought that Arch i686 was 64-bit, how can I tell if I am using 64-bit Arch? and how do I install the Nvidia drivers?
Thanks,
do pacman -Syu before installing packages. i bet that you had older database and pacman tried to download an older version of nvidia
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i686=32bit
x86_64=64bit
I realize that now..........
do pacman -Syu before installing packages. i bet that you had older database and pacman tried to download an older version of nvidia
Oddly enough I have already done that but since I am on 32-bit arch its kind of pointless now, I am going to reinstall 64-bit Arch and post back. Shouldn't take long, I am getting the feel for Arch.
Jee I feel like an idiot now, I miss read the homepage and I thought that i686 was 64-bit lol
Last edited by dcj123 (2009-12-27 21:30:46)
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As a sidenote, never install the nvidia drivers without using pacman/makepkg. It can give you a lot of problems.
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