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claupper

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From: Sao Paulo/Brazil

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Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

Good afternoon!

   
I'm new here in the forum and also in the arch....
After a pacman-Syu my xorg does not rise and also the gdm?
I went into several files, but did not find anything different, it has to do with some daemons conf in the rc.d?
What should I do, because every time the exchange xorg version have some problem!

Hugs

Claupper

Last edited by claupper (2009-12-23 10:10:31)

turing

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 30

Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

What nvidia card do you use? Show us the Xorg-log (located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log).

Read this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83686 and search the forum for answers.

claupper

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From: Sao Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2009-11-05

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

What nvidia card do you use? Show us the Xorg-log (located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log).

Read this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83686 and search the forum for answers.

My card is a  GeForce FX 5200 256MB ram

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

Yup, so it's either "vesa", "nv" or "nouveau" for you, as long as Nvidia doesn't update the legacy drivers.

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claupper

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

Yup, so it's either "vesa", "nv" or "nouveau" for you, as long as Nvidia doesn't update the legacy drivers.

How do I configure and run the vesa driver?
I lose 3d acceleration for games using one of

claupper

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From: Sao Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2009-11-05

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

Yup, so it's either "vesa", "nv" or "nouveau" for you, as long as Nvidia doesn't update the legacy drivers.

How do I configure and run the vesa driver?
I lose 3d acceleration for games using one of

It's all right now, because he had forgotten to rename the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.vesa ok.
How do I configure and run the vesa driver?

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

Those suggestions were in reverse order of preference.  Try nouveau first, then nv, then vesa as a last resort.

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 753

Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

@claupper
If you really, really need 3d, nothing of those will really help.
Nouveau, does have 3d, but only basics, so nothing usable if u want to play games. (Though, KMS is quite nice)
Only working solution you have is to downgrade Xorg.

Look here for following packages:

libxi-1.2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
libxtst-1.0.3-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mesa-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-apps-7.5-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-utils-7.4-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz

After downloading, install them with:
pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz

and block their updates in /etc/pacman.conf with following line:

IgnorePkg   = xf86-video-vesa xorg-server xorg-apps xf86-input-evdev mesa xorg-server-utils libxi libxtst

Again, this is not realy good solution (good one would be a driver that works with latest xorg-server), but this is a price and joy of having a nvidia card.

Last edited by Xabre (2009-11-06 02:08:26)

claupper

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Registered: 2009-11-05

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Re: Problems with Nvidia in Xorg!!![Solved]

@claupper
If you really, really need 3d, nothing of those will really help.
Nouveau, does have 3d, but only basics, so nothing usable if u want to play games. (Though, KMS is quite nice)
Only working solution you have is to downgrade Xorg.

Look here for following packages:

libxi-1.2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
libxtst-1.0.3-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
mesa-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-apps-7.5-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-server-utils-7.4-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz

After downloading, install them with:
pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz

and block their updates in /etc/pacman.conf with following line:

IgnorePkg   = xf86-video-vesa xorg-server xorg-apps xf86-input-evdev mesa xorg-server-utils libxi libxtst

Again, this is not realy good solution (good one would be a driver that works with latest xorg-server), but this is a price and joy of having a nvidia card.

After uninstalled everything and install all these packages, everything is back to normal. Now pacman can no longer install the latest packages, and I hope that this problem of nvidia drivers will be resolved soon.
Thank you for your help

Hugs

Claupper