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JustMe

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Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Startx - AddScreen/ScreenInit Faild - Asus N76V - GT 650M

Hi all,

I have a Asus N76V  (N76VZ-DH71-CA) with Nvidia Geforce GT 650M 2 Gb card.

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT
650M] (rev a1)

I followed the Beginners' Gide - GUI but when its time to startx the screen goes blank, but I can sometimes manage to exit blindly

Log file:
Xorg.0.log - PastBin

The last error being:

Fatal server error:
[    23.406] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

I tryed multiple Xorg - Drivers and I'll be honest, I don't know which one is insatlled now

Please, post exactly what I should type (I don't want anything lost in translation because I'm still pretty new to this)

Thanks!!

Last edited by JustMe (2013-10-17 04:26:32)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Startx - AddScreen/ScreenInit Faild - Asus N76V - GT 650M

I tryed multiple Xorg - Drivers and I'll be honest, I don't know which one is insatlled now

Check /var/log/pacman.log.

Have you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee ?
You seem to be using nouveau - not necessarily the best choice for your hardware.

Last edited by karol (2013-10-06 06:12:05)

JustMe

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Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Startx - AddScreen/ScreenInit Faild - Asus N76V - GT 650M

Thanks for your reply, I will get back to you when I have time to try it. Thanks!

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [SOLVED] Startx - AddScreen/ScreenInit Faild - Asus N76V - GT 650M

I suggest first of all blacklist both nouveau and nvidia. You should be able to start X if the only card running is the Intel one. After you get basic functionality established, you can start playing around to see if you can use the nvidia card at all. (I personally can't yet - I am stuck with intel for the moment.)

JustMe

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Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Startx - AddScreen/ScreenInit Faild - Asus N76V - GT 650M

[SOLVED]

I got startx to show the default environment by first checking what I had installed:

pacman -Qqn

Which showed that I had the Nouveau driver installed:

xf86-video-nouveau

I then removed it by:

pacman -Rdds xf86-video-nouveau

And installed the intell driver:

pacman -S xf86-video-intel

After that

startx

worked as expected

Thanks for your help :) I didn't figure out how to black list (uninstalling was faster ;) ) but thanks for telling me that I have the two graphics cards in there!

I will have to check out Bumblebee and I may post further success here (if that is OK)

But for now,

[/SOLVED]

Thanks for the help Guys / Girls!! Stay awesome.