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infinite_turtles

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 5

getting X working, help needed

Hi,

currently if I try and start X i get the error "failed to load module "wfb" (module does not exist, 0)"

running "pacman -S nvidia" changes nothing
running "pacman -S nvidia-utils" i get
"by using this package you accept the NVIDIA liscence...
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.
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::updating symlinks to use built in libwfb
ln: target '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so' is not a directory"

in the xorg.conf is the line "ModulePath    /usr/lib/xorg/modules" and in that directory are the files:
libnvidia-wfb.so.1
libnvidia-wfb.so.100.14.19
libnvidia-wfb.so.169.12
libwfb.so.1.4

the first two are symbolic links to themselves (???) the second two are shared object files.

now I've thought it was odd complaining that libwfb.so is not a directory, but creating a dir with that name and then running "pacman -S nvidia-utils" completes and inside that directory creates the files:
libnvidia-wfb.so.1
libnvidia-wfb.so.100.14.19
libnvidia-wfb.so.169.12
which are all symlinks to thier respective files in the modules directory. running X again it outputs "dlopen: /usr/.../libwfb.so: cannot read file data: Is a directory"

if i get my hands dirty a bit and manually set up links i can create a file libwfb.so and symlink it to either of the shared object files libnvidia-wfb.so.169.12 and libwfb.so.1.4. Then when i start X it says:

loading /usr/.../libwfb.so
Module wfb: vendor="NVIDIA corporation"
    compiled for 7.1.99.2, module version = 1.0.0
OR
Module wfb: vendor="X.org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0

X continues to do its thing until it gets the error:
"NVIDIA(0): failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration."

hopefully you guys have some ideas i haven't thought of, or even better know how to solve this. help is much appreciated. thanks.

tami

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From: Norway, Oslo

Registered: 2007-11-10

Posts: 58

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Re: getting X working, help needed

This was of a great help for me:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … phic_Cards

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

...so I hope it will also help you.

(I do not know - have you ran nvidia-xconfig after installing a driver? have you loaded modules by executing depmod -a ? )

tami

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