Want nvidia and nvidia-utils-169.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz !!

After upgrade nvidia and nvidia-utils, my screen turned black.
Need to downgrade, but I can't find the packages,
Please help!!
AMD64 3000+
GF6100
2G ram
seagate 250G

http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/n … iew=markup
That might be your best bet. I thought I had an even older version in my cache, but unfortunately I must have deleted it a few days ago. Sorry.
Edit: Did you by chance upgrade your kernel, too? A few times I've had trouble when upgrading the kernel. Try reinstalling (perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling) the nvidia drivers, or try "modprobe nvidia" as root. Hopefully one of them will do it for you. But then again, if you're not getting errors from X and you just have a black screen, I doubt either of those will do it.
Good luck.
Last edited by tonyisnt (2008-09-05 05:33:05)

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Last edited by Kaso_Da_Zmok (2008-01-08 11:16:53)

cell wrote:I read some where that the conflict comes when if you install with the script from nvidia.com and then reverse back to the driver from the repository.
Same happened to me.
I never installed anything manually, and I also had that issue.
So the explanation given in the link I gave above is more probable, at least in my case.
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Two GPUs, two purposes - libgl and nvidia-utils conflict - lib32-libgl

Hi all!
After realizing there is no way (by now) to perform a vgs switch (between integrated Intel and discrete Nvidia GPUs) using nvidia propertary driver (as I read, the only one supporting gpgpu with cuda/openCL), I wondered if there is a way of letting them co-exist: graphics on the integrated one and applications on the nvidia. After all, I might not need to be using the discrete card for the video if I want to use it for other purposes.
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Xehoz wrote:
davide wrote:
ngoonee wrote:Using both at the same time? No, of course not.
So you think it'll never work :sad:
Actually, it is working now. It's a recent development posted in the mailing lists, but the solution came up yesterday and tests have been positive so far. It's confirmed to work in at least two Optimus machines.
Progress is being posted in the mailing lists, but the author, Martin Juhl, is also blogging it. I'll just sum up what the solution: It resorts to turbojpeg VirtualGL and two xorgs. The intel card does everything, and apps meant to use the nvidia are specifically run with vglrun.
Unfortunately, the solution removes hardware acceleration in the intel card (immediately noticeable by the absence of desktop effects). In arch that translates the libgl / nvidia-utils conflict.
intel-dri demands libgl.
xf86-video-intel demands intel-dri.
In order to install nvidia + nvidia-utils in Arch, without removing intel-dri and xf86-video-intel, you have to:
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Now THAT is just cool... would make optimus laptops so much more useful if/when it works reasonably well. Sounds like quite a bit of hackery involved though.

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I'm getting a clash between nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-utils when upgrading. The error is:
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Primoz wrote:With the newest update of xorg libgl a dependency of it wants to remove nvidia-utils which are in turn a dependency of nvidia driver.
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Last edited by manasij7479 (2012-03-17 21:40:10)

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Can I safely remove these drivers to allow upgrade?
I only have an nvidia gpu so I do not see a problem in removing these....:/
I could be wrong of course.
Any advice welcome.

pacman -Rd libgl
pacman -S nvidia-utils
it provides "libgl", so there is no prob.

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Today I did a pacman -Syu , it wanted to upgrade nvidia-utils, I said yes and it told me it would remove nvidia package as it conflict with, so I let it remove nvidia pakage.
Then Xorg didn't wanted to start. I reinstalled nvidia and received the following error:
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Hello,
My current setup requires me to run the latest nvidia drivers. I have downloaded and installed them from nvidia's website and have been running without issue. My problem is that the 'nvidia-utils' package now wants to be upgraded, and the upgrade wants to install files that are already installed from the stock nvidia driver.
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Is the nvida-utils package required by other packages? If so, how can I tell? I looked here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … dia-utils/ and it says that it is only required by the 'nvidia' package....
Can this be safely removed?

> Is there a way to tell if nvidia-utils is a dependency for other packages installed on my sytem?
Sure: 'pacman -Qi nvidia-utils | grep Required'. If you get "Required By : None" then pacman know of no deps.
You can also 'pacman -Rs nvidia-utils' and pacman either will remove the package and all the other unneeded packages or will tell you that some package needs nvidia-utils.
> It's best not to install without pacman.
+1 The nVidia webpage will tell which ones you need for your card, but you use install the drivers via pacman.

Lib32-nvidia-utils version problem [Solved]

Hi,
first of all sorry if this is the wrong place to put this secondly I'd have a go myself in fixing this but i'm not that comfortable in package building just yet.
I notice there has been an update to the lib32-nvidia-utils package on 2010-09-15 which is currently conlicting with the x86_64 nvidia package (last updated on 2010-09-01) due to version numbering.
the x86_64 nvidia driver version is currently at 256.53-1 and the lib32-nvidia-utils is currently at 256.53-2
due to this mismatch in version the X server will not start. can the maintainers either update the x86_64 nvidia package and the x86_64 nvidia-utils package to version 256.53-2 or rollback the lib32-nvidia-utils to 256.53-1 please
I only managed to fix this problem on my system by installing the older version lib32-nvidia-utils package I had in the "/var/cache/pacman/pkg/" folder but for someone working from a fresh build of arch will bugger them right up.
Last edited by balasarius (2010-10-06 15:20:10)

OK call me an absolute NOOB!!!
I spent nearly 3 hours last night getting the same version mismatch error with nvidia 256.53-1 and lib32-nvidia-utils 256.53-2 doing that exact same thing I've just done to try and recreate the error, and now the thing wants to work.
there must be little gremlins living in my machine driving me potty.
if I make any more topics like this that turn in to a load of waffle then feel free to pick up a plank of 2x4 (a.k.a. The I.T. Educator) and crack me over the head with it

[SOLVED] building xorg-server: libgl & nvidia-utils conflict

Hello!
I somehow feel like I'm totally missing the point, but...
edit: although I think (not sure any more) this was the same procedure when I first compiled xorg-server, I maybe should mention, I'm now using the testing xorg.
I still don't really understand, why I need libgl to build xorg-server. Aren't nvidia-utils supposed to replace that? Is there a way of building xorg-server with nvidia-utils instead of libgl and if yes: are there (dis-/) advantages doing so other than not having to uninstall nvidia-utils while compiling xorg-server?
Or the other way around: Perhaps it's just me, but I feel "funny" having to remove something that's vital to my installation before I can compile something that's vital to my installation, too... so is it really OK to remove nvidia-utils and compile xorg-server without it or am I doing it wrong?
Thank you for enlightening me
Last edited by whoops (2009-04-07 02:20:51)

Well AFAIK, The nVIDIA closed source drivers haven't caught up with xorg server 1.6 which is why you need libgl to build xorg-xserver 1.6+. I personally perfer the open source drivers over Fglrx (FireGL and Radeon X) and the closed source nVIDIA drivers as well.
edit: xorg server is 1.6 in testing so if you want to compile from source, and have the closed source nvidia drivers, you would need to compile xorg server 1.5.XX
P.S. You cannot have both, the nvidia drivers and the open source drivers (libgl), running at the same time which is why the nvidia-* packages are to be removed.
Cheers!
Last edited by Neo_The_User (2009-03-30 16:53:28)

Nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

Yesterday I upgraded nvidia and nvidia-utils (nvidia-185.18.31-1 & nvidia-utils-185.18.31-1) and it caused X to fail on next boot. (I've downgraded for now).
In the /var/log/Xorg.0.log it gave an error that told me to go look in the kernel log (If you want the exact message, I'd have to upgrade again and try to boot. Because of the logrotate, I guess.)
this is what I found in /var/log/kernel.log
Aug 1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.31, but
Aug 1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version 185.18.14. Please
Aug 1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Aug 1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: components have the same version.
Anyone have any ideas?

I ran into this breakage today and simply rebuilding nvidia-utils and nvidia from ABS didn't do the trick. The symptom on my Toshiba Tecra M3 laptop (2005 vintage, Pentium M, Nvidia Geforce Go 6200/6600 video) is that X hangs completely with a blank screen. Nothing works and I have to force an ACPI shutdown by holding down the power button.
I tried various versions of Nvidia and downgrading xorg-server all to no avail until, as a desperation shot, I tried the beta Nvidia drivers 190.18. That seems to have done the trick. Just posting about it here in case there's anyone else in the same boat (i.e. rebuilding the release drivers doesn't work).

Want nvidia and nvidia-utils-169.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz !!

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