Please help get Gainward GT240 nVidia video card to work!

VinylCyril · 2010-10-29 21:57:12

I've installed and upgraded (pacman -Syu) the system (Arch x86_64), installed hal, xorg and the entire xorg-video-drivers package group, but all i get when i run xinit is a screen with funny mixed pixels; nothing seems to work after that, it looks like neither the keyboard nor the mouse respond, but how would i know for sure...
i'm not a pro at all, i'm just used to hal handling everything neatly, but this is a new PC and it looks like hal doesn't manage on its own...
but i know there should be a solution, since i saw threads here about *audio* not working on this card; this probably means that video works for the people who wrote that

Dogmeat · 2010-10-29 21:59:07

pacman -S nvidia

VinylCyril · 2010-10-29 22:06:07

Wow, i have to admit i didn't try that... i feel stupid now.

Nevertheless, i executed that and it turns out that nvidia-utils and libgl are in conflict. but i can't remove libgl since there seem to be a bunch of *-dri packages depending on it...(ati-dri, intel-dri, mach64-dri, mga-dri, r128-dri, savage-dri, sis-dri, tdfx-dri). T_T

Dogmeat · 2010-10-29 22:10:14

pacman -Rd libgl

flamelab · 2010-10-29 22:15:31

pacman -Rd libgl
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils xorg xorg-input-drivers

done

VinylCyril · 2010-10-29 22:23:24

Thanks guys! I still have a lot to learn. I'm sure this will wok, but i can't check it yet becuse now suddenly it won't pick up my WiFi... >_< Was working great half an hour ago, nothing changed, but now after /etc/rc.d/net-profiles restart i get a "WPA Authentication/Association Failed."
*headdesk*

wonder · 2010-10-29 22:25:37

don't forget to remove all the bloat that you installed. pacman -Rs xorg-video-drivers.

for your wireless problem, open a new thread

VinylCyril · 2010-10-29 22:28:15

Yeah, i'll try to sort it out by myself first, then if it doesn't work out, will start a thread.

Thanks for all the help, guys!!
(i will mark this thread solved as soon as i install nvidia drivers and actually get the thing to work)

Last edited by VinylCyril (2010-10-29 22:29:26)

VinylCyril · 2010-10-31 18:21:07

Sadly, i spoke too soon... upon installing nvidia drivers, xinit now simply says "couldn't find screen, bla bla bla" and exits.
By the way i use hal and don't have any xorg.conf file.

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Please help get Gainward GT240 nVidia video card to work!

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