Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > So here's what happened, I was facing issue with proprietary nVidia driver > (screen tearing) so I thought I want to switch to the free one, so I > uninstalled nvidia with "pacman -Rs nvidia" , then I thought might

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 2:45 AM mar77i via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > When I tried "sudo modprobe nvidia" I got an "exec format error" > > message and the nvidia module refused to load. > > You need to build your driver for each kernel separately. That's why you > can get

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

Oh wow, please apologize the original message there making my mail look like a top post. I intended to be smarter than my email client, only to forget about it. cheers! mar77i ​Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

> When I tried "sudo modprobe nvidia" I got an "exec format error" > message and the nvidia module refused to load. You need to build your driver for each kernel separately. That's why you can get [0] as a package. cheers! mar77i [0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/nvidia-dkms

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

I did a rollback too , seems like there's no easy way to go back from nonfree to free drivers. On May 5 2018, at 12:00 am, Eric Blau wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:34 PM Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: So here's what happened, I was facing issue with prop

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

Le vendredi 4 mai 2018 19:33:44 CEST Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general a écrit : > I want to switch back to free driver, A shot in the dark ( I don't use nvidia at all) : Try replacing nvidia-utils or nvidia-libgl by libglvnd. AFAI remember, nvidia module requires custom OpenGL libs formerly provi

Re: [arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:34 PM Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > So here's what happened, I was facing issue with proprietary nVidia driver > (screen tearing) so I thought I want to switch to the free one, so I > uninstalled nvidia with "pacman -Rs nvidia" ,

[arch-general] Broke Arch trying to change graphics driver

Hi, So here's what happened, I was facing issue with proprietary nVidia driver (screen tearing) so I thought I want to switch to the free one, so I uninstalled nvidia with "pacman -Rs nvidia" , then I thought might as well try a different kernel and installed zen. Now when I boot into either ke