Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system.
You mentioned intel graphics driver, is there any possibilty that you have Intel + Nvidia Optimus?
No, I just recently bought the graphic card. I used the onboard one up to that point.
m a wrote:
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system.
Boot from the LiveCD and chroot to your system
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Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:05:06 -0400 Von: m a <mantonavia@gmail.com> An: arch-general@archlinux.org Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system.
You can boot from the LiveCD and switching to your local system as active instance. The magic word in the wiki is "chroot": https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot As one of the advantages you can fix your system even if it is not able to boot itself anymore. HTH Nelson
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti:
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD like someone said before thingking at all, this is Arch after all, we all have working text console and are not dependan't on X to be able to work. Just boot into text mode by adding 3 at the end of the kernel boot line, if you used the inittab method, but if you have used the DAEMONS=(.... gdm/kdm/xdm/... ....) method you 1st need to boot into single user mode by adding 's' instead of 3. Then in the single user mode remount the / filesystem rw and edit rc.conf to not start the loginmanager. Then you change into init mode 3 and there just login like regularry and install xorg-server package 'pacman -S xorg-server'
Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ? -------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara@gmail.com> An: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti:
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD like someone said before thingking at all, this is Arch after all, we all have working text console and are not dependan't on X to be able to work. Just boot into text mode by adding 3 at the end of the kernel boot line, if you used the inittab method, but if you have used the DAEMONS=(.... gdm/kdm/xdm/... ....) method you 1st need to boot into single user mode by adding 's' instead of 3. Then in the single user mode remount the / filesystem rw and edit rc.conf to not start the loginmanager. Then you change into init mode 3 and there just login like regularry and install xorg-server package 'pacman -S xorg-server'
nelsonmarambio@gmx.de [2012.06.22 1217 +0200]:
Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ?
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Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara@gmail.com> An: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti:
You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman -S xorg-server
How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD like someone said before thingking at all, this is Arch after all, we all have working text console and are not dependan't on X to be able to work. Just boot into text mode by adding 3 at the end of the kernel boot line, if you used the inittab method, but if you have used the DAEMONS=(.... gdm/kdm/xdm/... ....) method you 1st need to boot into single user mode by adding 's' instead of 3. Then in the single user mode remount the / filesystem rw and edit rc.conf to not start the loginmanager. Then you change into init mode 3 and there just login like regularry and install xorg-server package 'pacman -S xorg-server'
I would think that it's rather the other way around. Why would I have to go to the trouble of putting in a CD, boot, chroot, ... if I can simply boot the system itself and take advantage of its built-in recovery mechanisms (like text consoles, single-user mode, etc.) I think the measures you have to take to fix your system depend on how messed up it is. If you can get a text console from a normal boot (e.g., if only the X server is messed up as in this case), fix things there. If you can't but you can boot into single-user mode, do that. If your system is messed up enough that it doesn't even boot any more, then a LiveCD may be called for. Cheers, Norbert
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