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GlacialLeaf

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Registered: 2015-06-27

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Problem Getting Xorg to Work on Optimus

Hello,

I've just installed Arch on my new machine yesterday, which has Optimus on it. I installed everything the wiki said I needed, including the nvidia drivers and libraries, the intel drivers and libraries, and everything I needed for xorg to work, yet when I try to use startx, it freezes.

I've had troubles with it, and it said no screen found, and after scrounging around the web, I found that a working solution is to change my .xinitrc and xorg.conf. I tried doing that (will post my files later in this message), and then when I tried running startx again, the screen just froze after loading xorg.conf.d. When trying ctrl+alt+F2, it came back to the default Arch log in screen, again with no xorg, so I think it does run, just doesn't show anything. If anyone can help, please do.

My .xinit file:

#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi




xrander --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrander --setprovideroutputsource 0x45 0x2b0
xrander --auto

My xorg.conf file:

[# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 352.21  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-13)  Tue Jun  9 22:44:03 PDT 2015


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "nvidia"
    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 "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Device         "nvidia"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Driver         "modesetting"
    BusID          "PCI:0:2:0"
    Option         "AccelMethod" "sna"
    #Option        "TearFree" "True"
    #Option        "Tiling" "True"
    #Option        "SwapbuffersWait" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "intel"
    Device         "intel"
EndSection

Thanks ahead!

mrunion

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Re: Problem Getting Xorg to Work on Optimus

What steps in the Wiki have you followed? Have you looked at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee

and/or

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

depending on whether you actually want to use both the Intel and nVidia setup (Bumblebee) or just use the nVidia card (Optimus)?

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jasonwryan

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Re: Problem Getting Xorg to Work on Optimus

Also, read the Xinitrc page on the wiki: you aren't starting anything...

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GlacialLeaf

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Registered: 2015-06-27

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Re: Problem Getting Xorg to Work on Optimus

What steps in the Wiki have you followed? Have you looked at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee

and/or

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

depending on whether you actually want to use both the Intel and nVidia setup (Bumblebee) or just use the nVidia card (Optimus)?

I actually did follow the way described on the Optimus setup page. Tried putting those lines both at the beginning and ending of the xinit file, but it didn't help.

Also, read the Xinitrc page on the wiki: you aren't starting anything...

Um... I'd be happy if you can elaborate. ^ ^" I have the line 'exec cinnamon-session', and I even tried replacing it with 'exec cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d', so it /should/ start Cinnamon. And I did install Cinnamon...