[SOLVED] Nvidia Driver T-Shoot - New Install

purple12 · 2011-08-21 03:36:56

...Hello.
Just installed Arch on an office box and everything went great until I tried to access the Nvidia driver controls under XFCE4 after loading the nvidia-utils package. The UI tells me that I "do not appear to be using the Nvidia Driver..." I guess I'm still on Nouveau, despite following the path described in the Beginer's Guide. Here are some system details:

uname -a
Linux 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 21:55:57 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

lspci |grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX 550] (rev a2)

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i nvidia

[   686.487] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[   686.487] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  280.13  Wed Jul 27 17:12:07 PDT 2011
[   686.488] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 2
[   686.490] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[   686.490] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[   686.491] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[   686.495] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
[   686.495] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[   686.496] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[   686.496] (II) Unloading nvidia
[   686.496] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
[   686.498] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[   686.504] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV43"
[   686.860] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)

...tried generating an xorg.conf via nvidia-xconfig, and this is what it produced:

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 280.13  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com)  Wed Jul 27 17:15:58 PDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

==============

...for giggles, tried to modprobe nvidia into the kernel, and got:
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

...any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't expect to have this much driver difficulty when I install at home next week, and this office machine is really just a practice run. I suspect that the driver issue might be at least partially down to the fact that this is maybe not one of Nvidia's more standard SOHO-market cards. It came in this huge Dell workstation that weighs a ton...owell.

--Thanks

Last edited by purple12 (2011-08-21 06:34:20)

ewaller · 2011-08-21 04:33:07

purple12,
Sorry, I don't have access to a system with Nvidia. As a moderator, may I request that you use bbcode code tags around program output. It uses a monospaced font so that columns line up, and includes scroll bars for long passages. Your readers will appreciate you.

This text is in code tags.  To see how I did this, you can use the "Quote" link after this post to see the source.

Thanks.

purple12 · 2011-08-21 04:43:43

..oh yeah. that looks nice. thx for the tip!

anonymous_user · 2011-08-21 05:00:23

Did you install "nvidia"? nvidia-utils doesn't pull in the driver when you install it.

purple12 · 2011-08-21 05:22:48

wow...can it really be that obvious? Can't wait to try it when I get back to the office. I poured over that section in the docs and if there was a reference to "pacman -S nvidia" I sure never saw it...
Anyway, thanx...I'll check the package list.
--cheers

purple12 · 2011-08-21 05:55:20

HOLY CRAP! OMG, you're right. When the docs say:

# pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

..they are of course referring to two packages. Thank you. I am a complete moron, but a happy one now..

purple12 · 2011-08-21 06:33:01

oh yeah! this thing looks great now! XFCE4 is blazingly fast...I think I'm gonna like this. Thanks for pointing out the incredibly obvious, anon!

Inxsible · 2011-08-21 06:50:00

purple12, the edit functionality is there for a reason. Make use of it.

purple12 · 2011-08-22 00:45:20

Thanks for the help on the driver setup. I did some more tweaking today and recorded a few seconds of screencast (xvidcap) showing Compiz running under Arch / XFCE...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8KlIzKffI

admin: i'll be less prolific with my entries next time i post (*blush*).

Last edited by purple12 (2011-08-22 00:55:16)

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[SOLVED] Nvidia Driver T-Shoot - New Install

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