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#1 2006-07-18 22:27:00

Chaos
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Registered: 2006-07-18
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Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Hi All,

Sorry if this has been asked before,  done a search and didnt find anything.
I have just done a base install of arch and want to get a gui up and running,
I read that most people are using xorg so I downloaded it.

Im having problems getting startx to work,  I have a nvidai gfx card so looked at the wiki for installing the drivers,  downloaded drivers with pacman and done nvidia-xconfig.

The xorg.conf has the correct nvidia section added but when I do startx I get an error saying nvida module not found.

So I thought that I would need to edit rc.conf to add it ?

I added modules(nvidia) in rc conf but on bootup I notice an error
nvidia module not found.

How do I load the module ?

Cheers

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#2 2006-07-18 23:06:19

Phrodo_00
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From: Seattle, WA
Registered: 2006-04-09
Posts: 342
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Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

¿are you using the stock kernel?

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#3 2006-07-18 23:07:19

twiistedkaos
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 666

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Chaos wrote:

Hi All,

Sorry if this has been asked before,  done a search and didnt find anything.
I have just done a base install of arch and want to get a gui up and running,
I read that most people are using xorg so I downloaded it.

Im having problems getting startx to work,  I have a nvidai gfx card so looked at the wiki for installing the drivers,  downloaded drivers with pacman and done nvidia-xconfig.

The xorg.conf has the correct nvidia section added but when I do startx I get an error saying nvida module not found.

So I thought that I would need to edit rc.conf to add it ?

I added modules(nvidia) in rc conf but on bootup I notice an error
nvidia module not found.

How do I load the module ?

Cheers

Did you type:

pacman -S nvidia-utils

Also, please psot your xorg config.

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#4 2006-07-18 23:24:04

Chaos
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Registered: 2006-07-18
Posts: 10

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Phrodo_00 wrote:

¿are you using the stock kernel?

yeah stock 2.6

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#5 2006-07-18 23:26:39

Chaos
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Registered: 2006-07-18
Posts: 10

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Cheers[/quote]
Did you type:

pacman -S nvidia-utils

Also, please psot your xorg config.[/quote]

I just done pacman -S nvida  do I need the utils to ?

Im duel booting xp so dont know how im gona post the config.
Unless I can use lynx or something hehe

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#6 2006-07-18 23:31:23

user
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Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 465

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Don't do below code until you have understand it.
(Anyway it helped me, though i am not using nvidia-installer, anymore. i am using free nv driver from linux)

sudo bash
cd /usr/X11R6
rm -rf lib
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg lib
./<path>/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-<version>-pkg1.run

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#7 2006-07-19 07:40:15

Kern
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From: UK
Registered: 2005-02-09
Posts: 464

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

insmod nvidia ?

fyi, i always had trouble with the pacman nvidia so downloaded the .run file from nvidia site as "user" specifies. Shut down X , chmod 755 the file, and run as root, iirc.

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#8 2006-07-19 16:38:56

Chaos
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Registered: 2006-07-18
Posts: 10

Re: Nvidia module not loading for xorg

Thanks for the tips,  I decided to start from scratch again.
After base install First thing I done was run

pacman -Sy
pacman -Su to make sure everything was up to date
pacman -S xorg

followd the xorg wiki instrucions
didnt use hwd or nvidea-xconfig thats what I used last time

Pacman -S nvidia

manually edited xorg config
Disable in modules section: GLcore and DRI
Add to modules section:
Load "glx"

Change Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia"

saved and done a startx but complained about modules not available so rebooted and works now,  maybe that was becuse I pacman -Su at begining ?

Also when starting X it complaied about /dev/input/mouse so had to change xorg config to /dev/input/mice  strange as it says mouse in the wiki maybe its just my hardware ?

also done pacman -S xorg-twm xorg-apps xterm  to get xorg up and running. 

So looks like im starting to get somewhere ,  now to try and get a window manager working,  so many to choose from hehe.

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