[SOLVED] Xorg terminates upon xinit with Nvidia drivers

toriyomi · 2023-12-19 03:24:34

Hi,

I am trying to run i3 on my new Arch Linux installation. My system only has one single graphics card.

Here is my video card :

$ lspci -v | grep -A1 -e VGA -e 3D
2b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate]

I have installed xorg-server, xorg-xinit, and xorg-apps. I also have installed the i3 package group. Moreover, I installed the nvidia package as I need to use Nvidia's proprietary drivers.
After that, I ran nvidia-xconfig to generate an etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

When I run

xinit i3

a black screen appears for about a second; After that, I am back to shell, where the message

xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shutdown (II) Server terminated sucessfully (0). Closing log file.

is outputted.

At the end of my /var/logs/Xorg.0.log, there is the following lines :

[   429.511] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Deleting GPU-0

Also, I have this Xorg error at the end of dmesg's output :

[   41.329061] Xorg[681]: memfd_create() called without MFD_EXEC or MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL set

I feel like this is a driver issue because of NVIDIA(GPU-0): Deleting GPU-0, is this the case?

Thank you.

Last edited by toriyomi (2023-12-23 20:02:30)

Scimmia · 2023-12-19 04:26:54

toriyomi wrote:

HAfter that, I ran nvidia-xconfig to generate an etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Step 1: get rid of that. Is there a reason you're not using startx? Post the entire log, not just bits and pieces.

seth · 2023-12-19 09:02:22

Step 2:

At the end of my /var/logs/Xorg.0.log, there is the following lines :

That's unlikely the relevant xorg log w/ xinit/startx, see ~/.local/share/xorg/ and post the entire log. removing devices when the server tears down is norma

Step 3: https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xor … xinit.1.en
Because what you're doing isn't at all how xinit works

toriyomi · 2023-12-23 20:01:24

Thank you both for your contribution.

I got rid of Nvidia's /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I then noticed that I had no .xinitrc, and had instead created a "xinitrc" file (without the dot). I renamed it to .xinitrc (with contents "exec i3").

startx now launches i3 without issue; it was a dumb mistake on my part. Thank you all again.

seth · 2023-12-23 23:30:59

with contents "exec i3"

Please visit the last link below and pay attention to what to at least include in your xinitrc.

Arch Linux

#1 2023-12-19 03:24:34

[SOLVED] Xorg terminates upon xinit with Nvidia drivers

#2 2023-12-19 04:26:54

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