X won't start in Arch

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 22 Jun 2010, 06:19

I upgraded the Nvidia drivers to 195 as I was posting this, rebooted Arch, and now GDM times out on me after just a fraction of a section (quite litrally with a warning), and won't load. Tried startx, no go. I rebuilt Xorg.conf, and still no go.

Relevant logs are here; /etc/Xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and /var/log/gdm/:0.log.

I am wondering if I should remove the 195 driver, and go back to 173xx? If so, I'd need the exact commands to run it in tty, as I can't get in there right now to find the exact names of the files that are needed to be removed and installed. AFAIK, there was a bit of a kernel upgrade, too.

Help me get back into Arch please? ATM, it's important.

Thanks a bunch.

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 22 Jun 2010, 15:40

Anyone? Thanks!

Postby **viking60** » 22 Jun 2010, 17:29

I have played arround with a lot here. In the end this worked the best:

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nvidia-xconfig

It generated this xorg.conf

I dont think you need to go back to 173. But if it works - do it!

Some useful literature:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

And you start Gdm in inittab?
(uncommented like this (

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x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

) Or do you start it as a daemon - that is buggy!
(Solution to this would be to remove gdm for the daemons in rc.conf and activate it in inittab as described above.)
If you have both kdm and gdm, then put kdm in the daemons in rc.conf and start gdm via inittab - that is what I do.

And just check that you have
id:5:initdefault:
uncommented, further up (you probably have since it has worked)

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 22 Jun 2010, 18:38

I don't know how it starts. LOL. All I know, is up 'til now, I'd boot the machine and it would go to the GDM login screen, and I'd login. LOL.

Now, it can't boot the login screen. GDM times out on me, in less than a second, over and over - this is a first for this kid on that; it's never happened before.

I don't have anything but GDM in rc.conf, btw. I don't go the KDM way, even when running KDE LOL. I'm wondering if installing gdm-more-themes has done this?

Will nvidia-xconfig work in tty, or only in X? Just curious 'cause I can't get into X. Edit: Yes, I think so.

It appears that Nvidia and GDM aren't "connecting" somehow. The driver loads up as the machine's booting, but then when I get to the login screen, everything falls apart - you'll see that in those logs.

YouTube · Postby **dedanna1029** » 27 Jun 2010, 03:55

Okay, so I've been able to get back in. The xorg.conf file was fine. Everything was fine, except guess what the damn thing had done in that update. It had uninstalled the nvidia 173.xx driver, but not installed the 195 driver like I had told it to.

When all else had failed, I ran an "whereis nvidia", and it came back with nothing. Installed the 195 driver from there, ran nvidia-xconfig, and I'm in.

Just one slight problem now. Look in the lower right of the screen in the system tray as you view this:

I've tried to re-add it several times, keep getting the same thing.

Also, my i-net is running very slowly... at least in the browsers. Sigh.

bjoernvold.com

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