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santiagoenluri

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Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 13

Error with nvidia update

Hi, I have updated the nvidai driver to the last one and now i can´t even log in, the screen goes black and i can´t use the console please help me otherwise i will have to reinstall everything thank you

rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: Error with nvidia update

you can always boot with a livecd, chroot your system and downgrade the package, if you still have the old one on the disk. no need for reinstalling.

santiagoenluri

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Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 13

Re: Error with nvidia update

How can i do it (chroot your system and downgrade the package), which live cd do i have to use, thank you

rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: Error with nvidia update

first question: you sound like a beginner - is archlinux the right distribution for you?

download the install disks, boot from them, mount your harddisks, run "chroot /mountpoint/of/the/root/partition", look for the old package in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and install it with pacman -U

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: Error with nvidia update

did you just logged out and tried to re login and the screen got black or did you reboot?
after the update i logged out, got a black screen, removed the nvidia module and loaded it again manually:
rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia

now you can start x again (if you don't want to reboot)

"chroot" supports imo every live distrobution. just boot the live cd, mount the root volume, chroot into it (chroot /mnt/point/ )

Last edited by arch0r (2010-03-06 21:03:58)

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Error with nvidia update

first question: you sound like a beginner - is archlinux the right distribution for you?

Just out of interest where is the best place to start learning?

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rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: Error with nvidia update

@loafer i wouldn't start with arch. fedora/ubuntu/... are much easier to handle until you want to do all the cool stuff

santiagoenluri

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Registered: 2010-03-06

Posts: 13

Re: Error with nvidia update

I did it thank you , and i am a beginner. The problem was the xorg.conf archive, i delete it, installed the nvidia package again, rerun nvidia-xconfig and it worked, thanks