Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Thank you everyone for your replies. >From last night, I have tried different versions of kernel + Nvidia driver to pinpoint the bug, and the culprit is the whole 260.x.x series drivers. Every driver from 180,195 and 256 series works fine on any kernel version. but the 260.19.04,260.19.06,260.19.

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:24, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 10/25/2010 07:04 PM, Attila wrote: >> >> At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> >>> congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users >>> having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia >>>

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Attila
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 22:24 Ionuț Bîru wrote: > maybe you misunderstood me or i suck at explanations. Not all cards are > affected and even the same chipsets. In some situations, no idea what > are those, the new nvidia driver doesn't work. > > for example there is one guy with sony vaio

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 10/25/2010 07:04 PM, Attila wrote: At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote: congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs. I don't have this problem so saying it is "only" a bug of th

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Attila
At Montag, 25. Oktober 2010 15:51 Ionuț Bîru wrote: > congrats, you found a bug in nvidia driver. I've saw a lot of users > having this issue on nvidia forum but not a single reply from nvidia devs. I don't have this problem so saying it is "only" a bug of the driver sounds too easy for me. Per

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 10/25/2010 04:40 PM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright. To be absolut

[arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright. To be absolutely sure that it is not caused by anything in my s