[SOLVED] Xorg and Plasma

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 05:30:55

I loaded up a fresh install of Arch, installed xorg-server xorg-server-utils, and xorg-xinit with the nvidia drivers. I know xorg is working because twm and xterm work when launching startx but when I comment those out and use exec startkde plasma attempts to load but only gets to a black screen with a cursor. After about 20 seconds a few Plasmashell and Krunner bug splats some up. I read that not having installed fonts can cause the black screen and cursor so i went ahead and installed ttf-freefonts and ttf-dejavu but the same things happens. I had an xorg.conf file configured in /X11 also.

Posting logs will be sort of a challenge as I can only boot one OS at a time (1 system at the moment). I know "post logs" and "we cant help without logs" is the status quo around here but if you guys can suggest other common fixes or things to try that have helped/worked in the past then I can start there. I've been looking around (thats how I found the bit about needing a font installed) myself with no luck.

Thanks in advanced.

Last edited by GunnDawg (2015-06-28 10:03:35)

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 06:57:25

Looking closer it looks like it outputs

extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".

three times then throws a bug splat.

Last edited by GunnDawg (2015-06-28 06:59:29)

jasonwryan · 2015-06-28 06:59:39

Chroot in and post your Xorg log: this thread is useless without it...

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 07:30:44

I would typical wrap this inside some code tags but this one is pretty hefty. I paste binned it if that's ok. http://pastebin.com/XCzrttg8

If I'm reading it correctly it looks like its trying to use the nouveau driver when I'd prefer it to use the proprietary 352 drivers.

my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf is completely empty if that makes a difference.

Last edited by GunnDawg (2015-06-28 07:33:48)

jasonwryan · 2015-06-28 07:49:53

Which card are you using and what driver have you installed?

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 07:56:48

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 760 and I installed the Nvidia drivers I believe. pacman -S Nvidia

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 09:01:50

I generated an xorg.conf but still no luck. Here it is.

# 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  "Screen0"
    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 "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

V1del · 2015-06-28 09:48:31

Do the Intel microcode update if you are on a intel CPU. And the output suggest you don't load the nvidia drivers correctly which suggests you don't have all the necessary packages, which include

pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl #and the respective lib32-variants if you intend to use it with 32bit programs

, as detailed on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 09:50:55

I'm using an AMD FX-8150 CPU so the intel part may be irrelevant and I have installed nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl and lib32-nvidia-libgl

Last edited by GunnDawg (2015-06-28 09:51:42)

GunnDawg · 2015-06-28 10:03:19

V1del wrote:

Do the Intel microcode update if you are on a intel CPU. And the output suggest you don't load the nvidia drivers correctly which suggests you don't have all the necessary packages, which include
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl #and the respective lib32-variants if you intend to use it with 32bit programs
, as detailed on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

Well apparently I was missing nvidia-libgl and only had the lib32 one. Everything seems to be functioning as it should now! Thanks!

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