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zephyrus17

Member

Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Xorg configuration problem

I have a Thinkpad T61p with an Nvidia FX 570M graphics card.

Following the beginner's guide, i got to the part after install alsa to the daemons. I installed

xorg

and

mesa

, then went ahead to install the

nvidia

graphics driver because it says "nvidia" is for the "newest GPUs after the GF4. Should I have installed

nvidia-96xx

instead?

After this, should I have run

nvidia-xconfig

first or

Xorg -configure

?

In a previous attempt, I ran

Xorg -configure

and tried testing

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

But it just outputs something containing

FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory

Now, I've been following the Guide quite closely. What went wrong?

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Xorg configuration problem

Did you run

pacman -Syu

?

zephyrus17

Member

Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Re: Xorg configuration problem

I did that. I did

pacman -Syy

first, then

pacman -Syu

I did both twice, just to be sure.

I just noticed that in my Synaptics in Ubuntu, I have

nvidia-glx-new

installed instead. Should I try this instead of "nvidia"?

What difference does the glx do?

Last edited by zephyrus17 (2008-08-20 00:48:29)

blackbird

Member

Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 10

Re: Xorg configuration problem

easyfix mate.

during pacman -Syu you updated the kernel, then without a reboot your started installing nvidia drivers, thats what gave the error.

just reboot, then follow the driver installation part and it should all go well.

The Avatar of Time

Member

Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 226

Re: Xorg configuration problem

Hello,

I would like to add that unless I am have been doing things wrong for quite some time (which is always a possibility), you don't have to run nvidia-xconfig AND Xorg --configure. If you use nvidia drivers then only run nvidia-xconfig.

Otherwise I believe what happens is that the last one you run overwrites the previous xorg.conf. Also if you actually want the file saved to xorg.conf instead of XF86whatever, then do a 'sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf' before running nvidia-xconfig. It doesn't really matter but I prefer that method myself.

Also if you plan to use nvidia-settings once in X for anything then you need to install nvidia-utils as well, I don't think the guide mentions that.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2008-09-12 09:15:03)