[arch-general] X11 crashes after pacman -Syu

[Patrick Lögdahl]

  On 9/4/2010 17:13, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> I recently updated my system with pacman -Syu; everything worked fine,
> but since I've rebooted the machine, running 'startx' causes X to start,
> I see the 'nvidia' logo flash, and then crash.
>
> I updated 'nvidia', but now when it starts it complains of being unable
> to allocate DMA memory and aborts.
>
> My Xorg.0.log is here: http://sprunge.us/GOLS
>
I had pretty much the same problem (same error in the log), but i could 
get X to start by just doing

% rmmod nvidia
% modprobe nvidia

After every reboot I had the same problem.

To solve it I did

% mkinitcpio -p kernel26

and after that everything was fine, I didn't have to downgrade anything.