[arch-general] X11 crashes after pacman -Syu

[Patrick Lögdahl]

  On 9/4/2010 20:39, Patrick Lögdahl wrote:
>  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.
>

BTW, I have nvidia in the MODULES list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
That may have something to do with me being able to solve it like this.

-- patrick