[arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

Muhammad Qadri muhammad.a.qadri at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 18:24:47 EDT 2009


If "notebook" includes HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop with GEFORCE GO 7600 NVIDIA
graphics card (why do they capitalize *everything*?), and you're asking
referring to i686, then yes, it seems to be fine, for me. :-)

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Edgar Kalkowski <eMail at edgar-kalkowski.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I somewhere read something about the latest nvidia driver being broken for
> notebook chips. I’m not sure if this is correct or was just an issue with
> the beta drivers but especially as you mention that it worked again after
> changing to vesa drivers I thought this might be the case here.
>
> I’m using nvidia drivers for my notebook as well but have not yet updated
> them because I read that it might cause problems. Are you, too, running a
> notebook? If so I’d be interested to hear if the latest nvidia drivers work
> ok for you.
>
> Edgar
>
>
>
> Am oder ungefähr am Samstag, 01. August 2009, um 23:58:58 schrieb Luís
> Moreira:
> > Hello.
> >
> > The last update broke my Xorg, the screen just goesn black and hangs
> > there, CTRL+ALT+F1 (etc) doesn't do anything.
> >
> > I'm using X86_64, *without* [testing].
> >
> > The updated packages were
> >
> > kernel26
> > nvidia
> > xorg-server
> > (and some others, less important)
> >
> > If I change the driver in xorg.conf from nvidia to vesa X works again.
> >
> > Anyone experienced the same thing?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Luís Moreira.
> >
>


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