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Squall90

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 26

Problem with proprietary Nvidia drivers

Hello,

since yesterday I have Arch and I really like it but I am pissed off my resolution. I have a minimal resolution without the proprietary drivers.
I have a Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX and I installed the package "nvidia-96xx".

When I try to start with "nvidia" as driver, I get an error:

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.0
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.1
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I already googled and got a hit here in the forum -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54517
But it does not help. They talk about the double slash... But I don't know how to change the path, because in the xorg.conf I only specify the driver to load, not the path.

What can I do to fix it?

Thanks

Shaika-Dzari

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-04-14

Posts: 436

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Re: Problem with proprietary Nvidia drivers

With a fx5200 you should use nvidia-173xx.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/413/

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Squall90

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 26

Re: Problem with proprietary Nvidia drivers

Thanks for your answer but 173 does not work.:rolleyes:
You also get the latest driver for Windows and it does not work too. GeForce 5200 is already legacy.
On Windows and Debian I had to use a 9xx one...

Here's a part of Xorg.0.log:

(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.

Too bad... In the text-mode, I tried to run with "nvidia" and got this errors and another message... But the "info" was not shown...
There was also a message that I should use 96.43.07.

What now?

detox332

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From: University of Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 63

Re: Problem with proprietary Nvidia drivers

i have an fx5200, using testing repo

i installed nvidia-173xx and used hwd -u and hwd -xa to create the xorg.conf

after that i went in and added NvAgp 8 and told it not to show the logo on startup

im wondering if its your version of xorg...

My versions of xorg and nvidia:
testing/xorg-server 1.5.2-3
extra/nvidia-173xx 173.14.12-2
extra/nvidia-173xx-utils 173.14.12-1

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