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p33w5t3r

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Registered: 2008-12-09

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geforce 8200m G

Hi,

I just bought a new laptop. I have installed Arch, but i can't get my nvidia geforce 8200 to work. I already read the wiki page about nvidia, but this could'nt help me. Does someone has the same card working, or does somebody know how to fix this. O, i also tried to install the driver downloaded from nvidia, but when the driver is building it stops with a make 1 and 2 error.

Super Jamie

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2008-12-15

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Re: geforce 8200m G

what arch driver package are you installing and how? how are you configuring your xorg.conf?

post your xorg log so we can see what the actual problem is

i put linux (albeit ubuntu) on a laptop with an 8600m (same nb8 gpu family as yours, i believe) the other week. even though the nvidia package said to install driver version 173, i could only get it going on driver version 177

the arch packages for these are called nvidia-173xx and nvidia respectively

p33w5t3r

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Re: geforce 8200m G

Hi thanks for you're reply. I was away from home. I just did a fresh install with Arch. I installed the nvidia driver from the nvidia site. When is start GDM i can see my login screen, but i can't see the text i'm typing.

p33w5t3r

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Re: geforce 8200m G

This is my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Nov  4 14:07:17 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

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Re: geforce 8200m G

I would use the drivers from Arch instead of from nVidia's site.  You're asking for trouble later on if you don't.

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p33w5t3r

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Re: geforce 8200m G

Ok but wich one do i need. There are differend drivers for nvidia in the archg repo's

mrunion

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Re: geforce 8200m G

For an 8200 just use the nvidia pacage like:

pacman -S nvidia

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