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blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

[SOLVED] xorg fails to start : Failed to load "nouveau"

Hello,

i compiled a custom kernel yesterday and wanted to start using the nouveau Driver for my nvidia card to make things easier. So I deinstalled my nvidia driver.
And installed nouveau-dri. Made sure that nouveau isn't still blacklisted in modprobe. Created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf with

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia card"
    Driver "nouveau"
    Option "GLXVBlank" "true"
EndSection

as adviced in the Wiki and deleted my old xorg.conf from /etc/X11/ so xorg should fall back to the standard Arch Linux config which should work out of the box.

Now when i startx I get the message that it failed to load nouveau because it can't find it. No other Error Messages. During startup it does successfully load nouveau since I can find it
with lsmod. So where is the problem? sudo Xorg -configure didn't help.

Thanks in advance,

blackout23

Last edited by blackout23 (2012-01-04 18:36:36)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED] xorg fails to start : Failed to load "nouveau"

nouveau-dri isn't enough, you also need xf86-video-nouveau

blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

Re: [SOLVED] xorg fails to start : Failed to load "nouveau"

Thanks. That did the job!