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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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¿are you using the stock kernel?
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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-utilsAlso, please psot your xorg config.
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¿are you using the stock kernel?
yeah stock 2.6
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Cheers[/quote]
Did you type:
pacman -S nvidia-utilsAlso, 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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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.runI removed my sig, cause i select the flag, the flag often the target of enemy.
SAR brain-tumor
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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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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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