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Dr Small

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Video Settings -- nVidia

I have a nvidia card, which worked fine for games on Ubuntu (apparently I had some restricted driver installed) so video worked and games didn't lag. Well, I would like to get it working again in Arch, as playing bzflag is really sluggish (even with video settings at bare minimal) and it is completely unusable at the highest settings.

Is there any way I can get better graphics support in Arch for my nVidia card?

Dr Small

uastasi

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Wiki is your friend -> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

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Misbah

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

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Dr Small

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Ok, so running:

pacman -S nvidia-96xx

As the wiki said, does not work. It spills out an error at the end that says:

(9/9) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
klibc-kbd: /lib/initcpio/hooks/keymap exists in filesystem
klibc-kbd: /lib/initcpio/install/keymap exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Of course, I had stopped Xorg, and was in a console, so that was not the problem.

Misbah

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

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Dr Small

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Either way, I get the same identical output for the 'nvidia' driver.

tigrmesh

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Ok, so running:

pacman -S nvidia-96xx

As the wiki said, does not work. It spills out an error at the end that says:

(9/9) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
klibc-kbd: /lib/initcpio/hooks/keymap exists in filesystem
klibc-kbd: /lib/initcpio/install/keymap exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Of course, I had stopped Xorg, and was in a console, so that was not the problem.

It looks like pacman had a problem installing klibc-kbd.  Try installing nvidia-96xx by itself.

Dr Small

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Um, is there a different way I should have been doing it?
I have been using:

pacman -S nvidia-96xx

How do you just install it by itself?
(Sorry, I have only been using Arch for 3 days.)

/me goes to read the Wiki again.

Dr Small

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Ok, so I ran:

sudo pacman -f -S nvidia

It got everything installed at that point, I went through and edited my xorg.conf file, as directed by the wiki, went to start X and it wouldn't work. I captured the errors though:

hostname: Unknown host
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/drsmall/.serverauth.12363


This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-ARCH i686 
Current Operating System: Linux darkghost 2.6.22-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 20:57:40 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 23 March 2008  11:53:09AM
 
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed May  7 16:08:42 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.22-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

azleifel

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Did you run a pacman -Syu since you installed Arch?  I only ask because the X output indicates that you have kernel 2.6.22.  The nvidia driver is compiled for a specific kernel version and the current nvidia-96xx package depends on the 2.6.24 kernel.

Last edited by azleifel (2008-05-07 20:32:22)

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

-Syu and a reboot shoud take care of that problem. You are running the same kernel as the install image.

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Dr Small

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Re: Video Settings -- nVidia

Thanks guys. You have been really helpful, and now I am running the 2.6.24 Kernel, and bzflag works awesomely.

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.24-ARCH

You guys are awesome!
Thanks again

Dr Small