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mikej_96

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] xorg / nvidia problems after upgrade

Hello,

I have recently done an upgrade with pacman -Syu and am having problems.
When X starts, it hangs at a blank screen. Keyboard is frozen and I am unable to hit another tty.  I can ssh in, but I cannot even seem to kill X, or reboot. I am forced to do a hard reboot.

I have tracked the problem down to running multiple X sessions. I currently have 4 monitors, and have them configured such that I have 2 X sessions, (2 monitiors with twinview on each session).  I can get things working on 2 monitors using twinview, but I cannot get X to start properly if I enable the second X session. (I have tried everything and cannot get anything to come up unto a third monitor... I can only get X working on 2..)

This seems like it could be a bug. Although I am not sure if the problem is with X or with the nvidia drivers, as both were updated, however I am thinking it is an issue with X.

I have checked and rechecked my xorg log files, and there are no errors, however, once I did see this error, but it did not happen consistently..

[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

Any suggestions?  I would like even be happy with downgrading some packages to get this working again.

Last edited by mikej_96 (2010-03-20 19:49:49)

mikej_96

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] xorg / nvidia problems after upgrade

Update: I downgraded the xorg-server package. Packman didn't complain of any dependancies so it was the only package in the downgrade. The downgrade did not help, and I still had the same issue. So I re-updated xorg-server.

mikej_96

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] xorg / nvidia problems after upgrade

Update 2:

Since downgrading xorg-server didn't help, I decided to try installing the latest and greated nvidia drivers. I grabbed them from their website, and uninstalled the nvida package from arch. (Version 190.53.1).  The drivers I am currently running are 195.36.15 and all is well.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: [SOLVED] xorg / nvidia problems after upgrade

Update 2:

Since downgrading xorg-server didn't help, I decided to try installing the latest and greated nvidia drivers. I grabbed them from their website, and uninstalled the nvida package from arch. (Version 190.53.1).  The drivers I am currently running are 195.36.15 and all is well.

Instead of installing non-managed packages, why not use nvidia-beta and nvidia-utils-beta from the AUR?

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