[arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

[Luís Moreira]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:28:42 +0200
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.
> >

Correct, I'm using a laptop with a NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7300 graphics card.

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:33:33 -0700
Giovanni Scafora <giovanni at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 2009/8/1, Luís Moreira <lmm1987 at gmail.com>:
> >  nvidia
>
> Are you using nvidia-185.18.31-1?
>
>

Yes, I updated to that version, the latest ones.

Best regards,
Luís Moreira.