Am Montag, 11. Juli 2005 23:03 schrieb Richard Golier: > On Monday 27 June 2005 23:17, sn0n wrote: > > Is it just me, or do they not work with each other? > > i tried getting the nvidia installed but lately all it tells me is > > that there is a xserver running, even after a reboot and before ever > > running startx nvidia says that installation failed because of an > > xserver running, > > and i cant update to the latest kernel, because then x wont start.. any > > ideas? > > > > ;-) > > Too late, but yesterday I upgraded kernel to 2.6.12.2-1 too. As usual, > after reboot it didn't log into X because it was missing nvidia module. So > I did pacman -Syw nvidia to redownload the nvidia (1.0.7667-2). > After switching to runlevel 1 and trying to pacman -S nvidia, it showed me > too that I should close any xserver running. But there was none! > > I tried it again, this time booting from grub directly to runlevel 1 but > the same happened. Now I'm forced to use the standard nv driver in > xorg.conf. > > Did you solve this problem somehow? Thanks >
I hit the same problem today. Turns out that the error message is misleading in my case, a closer look at /var/log/nvidia-installer.log reveiled that the real problem is that the current nvidia driver doesn't support my hardware (GeForce 2) anymore. (ha! Officially time to buy a new PC! ;-) pacman -S nvidia-legacy solved my problem, now back to normal X11 glory. Hope it helps, Bjoern _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
