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wootsgoinon

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Registered: 2013-10-30

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[SOLVED] stuck at Target Reached Graphical Interface @ Nvidia/Nouveau

i'm kind of new to linux and specifically to arch, so pls be gentle. i just did a fresh install, all went fine, but here's one thing i'm unable to sort out. i've been having a hard time for a couple of hours now getting the right driver and the necessary configurations for my nvidia card. i went through a number of threads, none provided too much help, so here it is. whenever i try to use the proprietary nvidia drivers, the boot process gets stuck at the

Target Reached Graphical User Interface

message. i decided to try nouveau then, so i remove the nvidia packages, delete xorg.conf, install the nouveau packages, create 20-nouveau.conf with the content of

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Default nvidia Device"
        Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

reboot, but it results in the same phenomenon. from this point on i have to delete 20-nouveau.conf to even get to the login screen. there's no nomodeset in the kernel options by the way.
only the open source vesa drivers seem to work so far. i'm clueless about this one.
(i'm using external monitor @ DVI for my notebook.)

pacman -Qs nouveau

local/lib32-nouveau-dri 9.2.2-1
    Mesa drivers for Nouveau (32-bit)
local/nouveau-dri 9.2.2-1
    Mesa drivers for Nouveau
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    Open Source 2D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] (rev a1)

Last edited by wootsgoinon (2013-11-03 12:51:44)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] stuck at Target Reached Graphical Interface @ Nvidia/Nouveau

Could it be this issue.

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wootsgoinon

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Registered: 2013-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] stuck at Target Reached Graphical Interface @ Nvidia/Nouveau

thanks for your reply. tried it, did not help, alas.

wootsgoinon

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Registered: 2013-10-30

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED] stuck at Target Reached Graphical Interface @ Nvidia/Nouveau

ok, if someone reads this, here's what i figured: realised that i didn't need neither xorg.conf, nor 20-nouveau.conf in the first place in order either driver to be utilized by bumbleebee. if you did nvidia-xconfig or manually created xorg.conf and/or 20-nouveau.conf and encountered the same issue described above as a result, just remove it/them. one trivia about bumblebee - maximum gpu performance gained by the primus render bridge.