[Solved] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module

Question

So, I did an arch base install today, rebooted and after that, basicly I
added kdemod to pacman.conf,
updated pacman,
rewrote pacman.conf (/mirrorlist),
pacman -Syu,
pacman -S kdemod,
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit,
pacman -S nvidia (removed libgl; 7600GT),
wrote xorg.conf.
now when I startx:
FATAL: module nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): module nvidia not found.NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
I tried reinstalling kernel26, nvidia, didn't work.
EDIT: reinstalled nvidia, worked after reboot.
* Also shutdown, modprobe.. is gone (command not found). So I pacmaned -S coreutils,
* which replaced mktemp with core/coreutils, didn't help.
* EDIT: `su -' solved that
not a clue, help needed,
thanks
Last edited by flocntl (2008-02-25 19:54:42)

Answer 1

can i see the output of
pacman -Q xorg-server nvidia
sudo modprobe -L | grep nvidia
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
edit: sorry
sudo modprobe -l | grep nvidia
edit2: recently replied on a similar thread, user used hwd -xa to generate a xorg.conf, then used aticonfig --initial... to generate a xorg.conf.  this resulted in duplicate config entries.
try this.
reinstall xorg-server, nvidia.  reboot.  run `sudo nvidia-xconfig` only, then move the resulting file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  then try startx
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-03-09 20:27:58)