nvidia driver fails to load with NV GT-220 graphics card

wirechief · 2010-05-31 23:51:28

I am using 2.6.33-ARCH of May 13th, I installed a Nvidia GT-220 graphics card over my onboard 6100,
it was using nouveau, i tried to upgrade to using the nvidia driver but find now that i am not able to
modprobe -i nvidia i get Fatal: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvideo.ko
modinfo nvidia shows it in the above location.
startx gives me: cannot execute binary file.
even after !nouveau in MODULES /etc/rc.conf it shows up with lsmod |grep nouveau

graysky · 2010-06-01 00:34:28

You shouldn't be manually modprobing the nvidia driver.... did you install the nvidia package via pacman? That should do everything for you... unless you have a funky /etc/X11/xorg.conf that's screwing with your stuff. Back up your current xorg.conf and generate a new on after install the nvidia packages like this: nvidia-xconfig

Last edited by graysky (2010-06-01 00:35:33)

wirechief · 2010-06-01 15:38:55

I installed the nvidia drivers with: sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

I seem to of gotten more than one problem with my attemps at resolving this. The issue with nvidia module has been resolved by reinstalling the previous kernel26 2.6.31.3-1 it apparently doesnt have nouveau. and lsmod |grep nouveau gives null reply so its gone...
I used sudo nvidia-xconfig and it completed as expected and wrote a new xorg.conf but i am still getting
cannot execute binary file when i try using startx.
startx gives me: cannot execute binary file. additionally using: sudo X -configure gives the same error.
the versions of nvidia are under question: I have nvidia 195.36.15-2 and nvidia-utils 195.36.15-1
I am not sure if different minors are a problem, just noting the difference.

graysky · 2010-06-01 20:07:07

I dunno what to say about it... did you add bang nouveau to your MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf like this?

MODULES=(!nouveau)

That will prevent it from loading automatically. You can pull down the latest kernel and nvidia drivers from testing and try them... enabe the testing repo sync (-Syy) and getting them via

# pacman -S kernel26 kernel26-headers kernel26-firmware nvidia

REMEMBER TO REMOVE THE TESTING REPO FROM YOUR CONFIG when you're finished. See if that helps.

wirechief · 2010-06-02 03:15:48

I did put a !nouveau in MODULES however the issue with this install remains that when i use startx it gives me the
error it could not execute the binary. I have removed this Hard drive and have reinstalled ARCH, so far things are working well, I have opted to keep kernel26-2.6.33.4.1-686 from coming in because of nouveau being a part of that kernel. I am using this:
sudo pacman -Q |grep kernel
kernel26 2.6.33.4-1
kernel26-firmware 2.6.33.4-1
sudo pacman -Q |grep nvidia
nvidia 195.36.15-2
nvidia-utils 195.36.15-1
I have LXDE installed and the desktop is working fine, so my basic install and settings are working, i just made a big mistake trying the AUR or ABS PKBUILDS to install Nvidia driver.
thanks for your review.

graysky · 2010-06-02 20:21:12

@wc - pacman should remove whatever package you made without problems. I dunno what happened.

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#1 2010-05-31 23:51:28

nvidia driver fails to load with NV GT-220 graphics card

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