[SOLVED]problem with GNOME and wireless connection

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 12:39:22

Hi!

I'm new to Arch Linux, and have run into a few problems after installation.

My computer is a HP Pavilion dv6000.

I installed using "xf86-video-nouveau" driver, as i understand this is the best choice for "Nvidia Geforce Go 7400". Is it?

I also installed the complete "gnome", "gnome-extra", "gdm", "gnome-tweak-tool" and "gnome-shell-extensions" packages, but when I boot into gdm login, it automatically starts in fallback mode (the one who has "applications" and "places" in the top panel instead of "activities". What am I doing wrong here?

Btw, when I go to System settings - system info - graphics, there are three lines; "Driver", "Experience", "Forced Fallback Mode". "Driver" line only says driver, and is blank after. "Experience" line says "Fallback". "Forced Fallback Mode" is set to OFF.

Also, I cannot figure out how to get my wireless network set up correctly.
When i open System Settings - Network, I get an error saying System network is not compatible with this version.

Any help with this woill be greatly appreciated!

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Last edited by pkuvaas (2012-01-18 21:57:46)

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 13:08:58

As per the wiki on Nouveau:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/No … stallation

You'll need the nouveau-dri driver for gnome-shell as it requires hardware acceleration. This is experimental work though, success may vary.

However, for as far as I am aware, the Nvidia binary driver supports Geforce 6xxx and up and should work perfectly for you:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

As for your wireless problem, you have a broadcom wireless chip that needs a driver. In a terminal, do this:

$ lspci

Look for the Broadcom wireless line, a version number should be there. It will look something like this:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)

Take that information to this article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless

and you should be on your way.

After you installed the proper driver for your wireless chip, you'll have to look up some more information about configuring wireless networks... but I suggest you start getting the driver installed and working

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2012-01-18 13:10:25)

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 20:16:03

Thanks!

-dri driver worked. But if the NVIDIA driver works better, I should probably consider using that one.

I tried to install the NVIDIA binary driver, but when i tried to run

# chmod -X NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run
# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run

I got a message telling me to close x first.
How can I do this?

As for the wireless issue, I googled around a bit and found that the driver I need is ilw3945.
I added this to /etc/rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(...ilw3945...)

as it seems the drivers are included in udev.
However, when i try to open System Settings -> Network, it says

The system network services are not compatible with this version.

So I'm getting a little restless to find out what I can do to get the wireless network configurated properly, and how I can do it.

Any ideas?

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 20:29:27

pkuvaas wrote:

Thanks!
-dri driver worked. But if the NVIDIA driver works better, I should probably consider using that one.
I tried to install the NVIDIA binary driver, but when i tried to run
# chmod -X NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run
# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run
I got a message telling me to close x first.
How can I do this?

Ho ho ho buddy, I see you're trying to install the nvidia driver from the website. Have another look here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia#Installing

the drivers are available through pacman Installing the driver through pacman will automatically take care of removing things that conflict and installing things you need to ge t the NVIDIA driver to work.

NVIDIA _might_ be better, 3d support in nouveau is still somewhat experimental and nouveau doesn't have all the power management features yet. It'll be something to experiment with. Have a good read of the NVIDIA and NOUVEAU wiki articles

pkuvaas wrote:

As for the wireless issue, I googled around a bit and found that the driver I need is ilw3945.
I added this to /etc/rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(...ilw3945...)
as it seems the drivers are included in udev.
However, when i try to open System Settings -> Network, it says
The system network services are not compatible with this version.
So I'm getting a little restless to find out what I can do to get the wireless network configurated properly, and how I can do it.
Any ideas?

First I think you've fundamentally misunderstood something. Drivers for linux come in module form, not in DAEMON form. A DAEMON is an application that runs in the background (sound server, network service, etc etc).

ilw3945 would have to be added to your MODULES section in /etc/rc.conf if that is the module you need.

humor me and post the output of this command:

$ lspci

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 20:42:36

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
07:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 20:57:28

I now tried to install NVIDIA using pacman, and got the following error after reboot:

gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.693140 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.692445 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.692940 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.642508 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

Now how do I fix this?
Can't even boot Gdm now

Last edited by pkuvaas (2012-01-18 20:57:58)

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 21:01:02

Allright, you were correct about the module add it to your modules section in /etc/rc.conf and the driver module should be load every time you boot.

Now as for gnome telling you that the system network service isn't compatible:
Gnome 3.x expects networkmanager to be installed by default, but Arch doesn't setup networkmanager by default for you. It's telling you the current system service isn't compatible because Arch's clean installation works with a custom network setup that Gnome doesn't know about.

You have a few choises on how to proceed now

1. install and set-up networkmanager, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager (the large solution)
2. install and set-up wicd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd (the smaller, simpler solution)
3. install and setup wireless_tools and wpa_supplicant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless (the manual way)

pick one of those and have at it!

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 21:04:52

pkuvaas wrote:

I now tried to install NVIDIA using pacman, and got the following error after reboot:

gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.693140 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.692445 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.692940 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:display lasted1.642508 seconds
gdm-binary[618]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

Now how do I fix this?
Can't even boot Gdm now

Please tell me the output of this command:

ls /etc/modprobe.d/

there should be a blacklist_nouveau.conf there, is it?

did you reboot after installing nvidia?

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2012-01-18 21:05:05)

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 21:09:22

# ls /etc/modprobe.d/
modprobe.conf    nouveau_blacklist.conf

Yes, I rebooted after

$ pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 21:14:55

please post the contents of this file:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

if you can't do that from the terminal, use something like curlpaste or wgetpaste to post the contents of that file to a website

you could also go back to nouveau, up to you.

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 21:23:35

I'm using a different computer to post in forum.
Any particular line in this file you need?

I would really prefer to stick with the nvidia driver. But if this turns out to be way to complicated, I guess I have no choice.
Just how would I go about reverting to nouveau then?

Last edited by pkuvaas (2012-01-18 21:26:38)

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 21:33:16

pkuvaas wrote:

I'm using a different computer to post in forum.
Any particular line in this file you need?
I would really prefer to stick with the nvidia driver. But if this turns out to be way to complicated, I guess I have no choice.
Just how would I go about reverting to nouveau then?

Any line starting with EE would be a good place to start.

as for reverting, simply remove both nvidia packages (nvidia and nvidia-utils) and re-install the nouveau packages. make sure /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_nouveau.conf is removed and then reboot, you should be back where you left off

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 21:44:14

[16.142] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)

[16.143] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)

[16.144] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

[16.337] (EE)  [drm] failed to open device

[17.617] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)

[17.770] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 21:51:43

[17.617] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)

I did some digging, the latest nvidia drivers have problems with the "older" chips (6xxx, 7xxx) while they are still registered as supported. This is very unfortunate, but the problem has been found and fixed in the development version of the driver. We'll have to wait for NVIDIA to release that driver before you can use the NVIDIA driver on your HP.

You could try to install an old version of the nvidia driver, but you'll manually compile the driver for the latest kernel. I suggest you step back to the nouveau driver until NVIDIA releases the new driver which will have the fix for the problem you're running into.

Sorry I suggested to grab the nvidia driver, I wasn't aware that the current nvidia driver had a bug with the 7xxx range.

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2012-01-18 21:52:22)

pkuvaas · 2012-01-18 21:56:28

ok.

I'll revert back to nouveau then.

Thanks for your time!
You have been of great help.
I can now access gnome 3 and hopefully wifi thanks to you.

So i guess my problems are [SOLVED]

stefanwilkens · 2012-01-18 22:01:32

aye, there should be enough docs linked in here to last you a while.

good luck.

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