Installed Nvidia drivers -- won't load

CaspianXI · 2008-01-25 22:50:11

I installed the Nvidia drivers using "pacman -S nvidia" and edited my xorg.conf file as mentioned on the wiki. However, when I start X, I don't see any Nvidia splash screen and graphics acceleration doesn't work. It seems to me that the drivers somehow aren't loading...

Does anyone have ideas where I may have gone wrong?

Here's my Device and Screen sections from my xorg.conf file:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation G70"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7600 GT"
    BusID          "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x945@76"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Falcata · 2008-01-25 23:04:38

What does your "Module" section look like? Here's mine (note that GLcore and dir are commented out)

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
#      Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
#      Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "ddc"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Also, to get acceleration, you need to add these lines to screen section:

        Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option "RenderAccel" "True"
        Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"

Last edited by Falcata (2008-01-25 23:05:06)

tami · 2008-01-25 23:31:17

I followed exactly the steps in the Wiki's Beginners Guide:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … phic_Cards
...and it works very well.

After installing nvidia driver I executed:

# nvidia-xconfig --composite --add-argb-glx-visuals

then I checked my xorg.conf file -> especially Section Modules and Section Screen (it looks as in the post above).

As the last step - updating kernel module dependencies:

# depmod -a

and that was it.

I hope this will help.

Best wishes,
tami

Misfit138 · 2008-01-25 23:35:28

tami wrote:

I followed exactly the steps in the Wiki's Beginners Guide:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … phic_Cards
...and it works very well.

I am glad it worked for you. When I wrote that section of the guide, I tested it on my system, but it's good to know others are having success with it.

CaspianXI · 2008-01-26 01:48:36

Hmm... nothing seems to be working for me .

Here's my Module section:

Section "Module"

#    Load           "type1"
    Load           "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "record"
#   Load           "synaptics"
EndSection

It's very similar to what Falcata posted, with the exception of "xtrap"... Although I tried replacing my Module section with Falcata's, and it still didn't work...

I tried following the Beginner's Guide, but that didn't seem to get my driver working either... Instead, I just got the following error from Xorg:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***

I found a guy the ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77277) who solved this problem by installing the nvidia drivers manually... is this a good idea?

(upon rebooting, the error went away, but the drivers still don't work. I suspect that the same problem is there... it's just skipping the nvidia drivers rather than throwing the error)

I just assembled this computer, so I haven't tested all the parts individually... could it be a hardware issue? (The graphics card works fine... the drivers just don't seem to work...)

Thanks for all your help!

Last edited by CaspianXI (2008-01-26 01:55:01)

CaspianXI · 2008-01-26 06:44:40

Well, I fixed my problem. After spending several hours trying to figure out what was wrong, I finally gave up and uninstalled Xorg, wiped all my configurations, and reinstalled Xorg.

Now, 3d acceleration works... I just don't get an nVIDIA splash screen when X starts I kindof like the splash screen, but it's no big deal (no, I don't have Option "Nologo" "true". I even tried Option "Nologo" "false"... but as I said, it's no big deal)

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Snowman · 2008-01-26 07:01:49

maybe It's case-sensitive. Try:
Option "NoLogo" "false"

CaspianXI · 2008-01-26 07:09:48

Hehe... I just figured out that the splash screen is displaying... it's just like a sixteenth of a second, and I happened to miss it . Oh, well...

tami · 2008-01-26 09:16:53

Misfit138 wrote:

tami wrote:
I followed exactly the steps in the Wiki's Beginners Guide:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … phic_Cards
...and it works very well.
I am glad it worked for you. When I wrote that section of the guide, I tested it on my system, but it's good to know others are having success with it.

...so - I would like to thank you directly for the Guide - thanks to it I managed first time to successfully install Arch Whole Wiki is extremely helpful - but Beginners Guide is simply splendid (if you follow it carefully enough! )

Sorry for (in a way) "hi-jacking" the tread - congratulation also to OP - CaspianXI - for finding the way out of the nVidia problem. I hope you will be as glad for Arch as I am.

Best wishes to all - and once again - big thank you Misfit138.

tami

Misfit138 · 2008-01-26 13:30:57

tami wrote:

Misfit138 wrote:
tami wrote:
I followed exactly the steps in the Wiki's Beginners Guide:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … phic_Cards
...and it works very well.
I am glad it worked for you. When I wrote that section of the guide, I tested it on my system, but it's good to know others are having success with it.
...so - I would like to thank you directly for the Guide - thanks to it I managed first time to successfully install Arch Whole Wiki is extremely helpful - but Beginners Guide is simply splendid (if you follow it carefully enough! )
Sorry for (in a way) "hi-jacking" the tread - congratulation also to OP - CaspianXI - for finding the way out of the nVidia problem. I hope you will be as glad for Arch as I am.
Best wishes to all - and once again - big thank you Misfit138.
tami

I spend a lot of time tweaking that guide. I've probably re-written all 42 pages 3 times over.
Glad it is being found useful!

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