My nouveau driver file is too short? [Solved]

Question

Yesterday I had this error when I was starting Xorg and it said my file was too short in the Xorg.0.log. I changed the device driver in my xorg.conf to "nouveau". (I do have a NVDIA card and nouveau is installed.)
I have this youtube video to document the error. (It still doesn't work but I changed the device driver to "fbdev")
(Yes, I am young! Please don't make fun of me!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDYtZUNcYB8
Last edited by JacobGuy7805 (2014-09-01 17:24:25)

Answer 1

Trilby wrote:
pacman -Sc will not remove currently installed packages from the cache - so that likely did not do anything.  You need to actually remove the package file, or use -Scc (and answer yes) to remove the cached file(s).
Then reinstall.  It should show that it is being downloaded before installing.
You can also check whether this is actually the issue by comparing the output of the following two commands to the output I'm getting (as long as you are on x86_64):
$ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 203232 Jul 18 07:13 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
$ md5sum /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
4eb8a6bd9ec92637a17ae70adaa9ef1f /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
I had to pacman -Scc and then when I did "pacman -S {,lib32-}nouveau-dri xf86-video-nouveau" it said that a whole bunch of files existed in the filesystem (although when I did pacman -R and the packages it kept insisting I did not download those packages) so I ended up just removing the files manually with rm. I then installed the packages and things seem fine now. I'm going to reboot.
EDIT: IT WORKED! I had to generate a new Xorg.conf, and then I just changed some things, and it worked!
Last edited by JacobGuy7805 (2014-09-01 17:24:05)