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I have a 9600GT card. I used the installer found on nvidia.com. It installs just fine. The problem is when starting X, it uses Vesa instead of the nvidia module.
Note: But If i let the nvidia driver installer update the xorg.conf, which I usually wouldn't even need, it works just fine. But I want to run without xorg.conf.
Thanks, and a happy new year.
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What is the problem with nvidia drivers we got in the repos, why not use them instead?
Did you reboot after installing the driver?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … ry_drivers
Any errors in the logs? Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Last edited by karol (2010-12-31 09:28:25)
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Why not just use nvidia and nvidia-utils from extra?
nvidia-utils includes /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf that causes xorg to use the nvidia driver.
Exactly.
If it still doesn't work, paste your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf and 20-nvidia.conf.
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Well if your driver works fine then why try to fix it?
Read wiki to help with creating configs to put in xorg.conf.d [even use parts from the working xorg.conf file you have]
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But I want to run without xorg.conf
Here's a question: Why? Is it an OCD "just because" thing? You could patch xorg-server, it's a simple patch actually to make nvidia the default. But at least to me that's total overkill to the simple solution Arch provides, which is the xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file.
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