Would installing the 304 nvidia driver i got from their site fix this issue? or would it mess up the nouveau driver?
Have you read the link from post #4?
You would need to patch 304 for the kernels Arch provides or build a custom kernel. For usespace you would need to build a custom xserver using version 1.19.
You would be responsible for maintaining those packages.
[ 5103.698] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
logs show several coredumps, but they appear to be from sddm and could be caused by the incorrect xorg.conf .
Please remove /etc/X11/xorg.confSidenote :
nvidia MPC51 chipset with an amd processor. I used a board with that chipset for 8+ years.
THANK YOU! after deleting the xorg.conf, startx worked! and after a reboot kde5 plasma started up but it has alot of screen tearing and blinking and text doesnt appear right. icons and images have static over disproportionate parts of them and stuff like that but im just happy at this point that kde works its just SUPER wonky.
Would installing the 304 nvidia driver i got from their site fix this issue? or would it mess up the nouveau driver?
[ 5103.698] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
logs show several coredumps, but they appear to be from sddm and could be caused by the incorrect xorg.conf .
Please remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Sidenote :
nvidia MPC51 chipset with an amd processor. I used a board with that chipset for 8+ years.
Covered in the tip box in the link in post #2.
wow I feel dumb lol. just had to scroll to see that woulda saved me alot of time. lol thank you!
heres the lspci -k: http://ix.io/2CX6
heres dmesg: http://ix.io/2CX8
and heres journalctl -b http://ix.io/2CX9
all as root user.
As user i did startx and heres the log: https://dpaste.com/82V5LG23S
and also here xinitrc: https://dpaste.com/6E3SECR7B
I'm able to paste files pretty easily but I've spent like a half hour trying to google how to paste the output of a command to a file in arch or to just be able to copy paste in a tty using something like vim but I'm still pretty new at this.
Covered in the tip box in the link in post #2.
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- login as root .
please post lspci -k , dmesg and/or journalctl -b
I'm able to paste files pretty easily but I've spent like a half hour trying to google how to paste the output of a command to a file in arch or to just be able to copy paste in a tty using something like vim but I'm still pretty new at this.
Also the output of lspci -k was too big for my screen so i had to use lspci - k | less to be able to scroll as well as dmesg.
Check /etc/X11 and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for files created by the nvidia driver (or yourself) and remove them.
Reboot to console
- login as root .
please post lspci -k , dmesg and/or journalctl -b
- login as user
post ~/.xinitrc , run startx and post that xorg log .
If you really need the 304 driver you have 2 choices :
- use nouveau
- switch to a version of a distro from before 2015 (even debian jessie from 2015 doesn't have nvidiia 304xx )
After switching to the nouveau driver, xstart still doesn't start but it no longer says no screens found, it just says connection to x server refused then aborts.
kstart5 still gives the same message aswell.
so i got a 304 legacy driver from nvidia and installed the .run
Warning: Avoid installing the NVIDIA driver through the package provided from the NVIDIA website. Installation through pacman allows upgrading the driver together with the rest of the system.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ed_drivers
If you really need the 304 driver you have 2 choices :
- use nouveau
- switch to a version of a distro from before 2015 (even debian jessie from 2015 doesn't have nvidiia 304xx )
Here is the paste of /var/log/Xorg.0.log
It seems to me that the Nvidia driver is having the issues finding the display or something but I've redone this driver too but still nothing.
UPDATE: I see in the Xorg log that the newest nvidia driver doesnt support the Geforce 6150 LE thats in the board so i got a 304 legacy driver from nvidia and installed the .run
Thought this would sort it out but the installation failed and got this log from the nvidia-installer.log:
Also a side note that might be irrelevant, in order to boot the system without a kernel panic error i needed to edit the boot line in grub to say noapic and then it would boot without that error.
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