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This howto shows you how to install proprietary NVidia drivers from the LiveCD. by Phil Miller - V.1.0 - 17.04.09

Contents 1 Step 1 - Booting with non-free drivers 2 Step 2 - Installing the drivers 3 Step 3 - Installing chakra on your local pc 4 Step 4 - Reboot preparations 5 Step 5 - Reboot and ReInstall of NVidia drivers

Step 1 - Booting with non-free drivers

Boot from the LiveCD as usual and select "Boot with non-free drivers" in the boot menu. In some cases your nvidia card gets NOT detected so the nv-driver gets loaded. On a LCD-TV with an resolution of 1360x768 X gets started but you don't get any screen display cos the resolution is out of range. Don't panic here, just hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to start the first terminal. Log in as root using root/root.

Step 2 - Installing the drivers

Now you are in a bash. Type followed code:

  pacman -Rd libgl

... to uninstall libgl

With

  ls /opt/cha*/pk*

... you get a list of all avaiable packages stored on the LiveCD.

  [phil@phils-tvpc ~]$ ls /opt/cha*/pk*
  catalyst-9.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  catalyst-utils-9.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  initscripts-2009.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-173xx-173.14.12-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-173xx-utils-173.14.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-180.22-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-96xx-96.43.09-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
  nvidia-utils-180.22-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

You've to install to packages. nvidia and nvidia-utils.

For newer cards:

  pacman -U /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-180* /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-utils*

For older cards:

  pacman -U /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-173* /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-173*-utils*

or

  pacman -U /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-96* /opt/cha*/pk*/nvidia-96*-utils*

run a

  modprobe nvidia

to start the driver

If now error gets displayed run

  nvidia-xconfig

Step 3 - Installing chakra on your local pc

Type

  init 3

to kill X followed by

  startx

to start Tribe, the installer of chakra

Tribe will check for a new version it's own package. If the x-session crashes restart X with

  startx

Install chakra as usual: [Install_chakra_from_livecd|How to install Chakra with Tribe]

Step 4 - Reboot preparations

After you see the last page of Tribe where you can click on the "Restart your PC"-Button hit CTRL+ALT+F2 to start terminal 2. Login as root again (root/root). mount one of your local harddrives to /media/hdd

  mkdir /media/hdd
  mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd

copy the nvidia-packages to that dir

  mkdir /media/hdd/opt/drivers
  cp -R /opt/cha*/pk*/* /media/hdd/opt/drivers

otherwise you don't have the packages for reinstall.

Step 5 - Reboot and ReInstall of NVidia drivers

Reboot your system with

  shutdown -r now

Chakra GNU/Linux will boot, but still no NVidia drivers, again.

Repeat Step 2 but this time point to the harddrive you copied the files to. In the example it should be in the /opt/drivers dir of sda1

  pacman -Rd libgl
  pacman -U /opt/drivers/nvidia-180* /opt/drivers/nvidia-utils*
  nvidia-xconfig
  kdm restart

Now you should also be able to login into your installed system.