[Solved] Xorg won't start with nvidia driver

k3ttc4r · 2008-12-28 17:46:21

Hi there.. just got Arch installed, everything worked fine. now i wanted to install the nvidia driver for my 9600GT.

i tried the search, but couldn't find anything for this problem.

so here's what happend:

i did

pacman -Sy nvidia

and changed my xorg.conf first manually according to the wiki, and after that didn't work, i tried nivida-xconfig.

when i tried to restart X, i got following error:

FATAL: module nvidia not found
(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

help!

Last edited by k3ttc4r (2008-12-28 18:13:49)

thunderogg · 2008-12-28 17:56:52

"pacman -Sy nvidia" doesn't install anything. It just syncs the rep databases. To install, you have to do "pacman -S nvidia".

k3ttc4r · 2008-12-28 18:13:13

oops.. embarrasing.

well, i now did

pacman -R nvidia
pacman -Sy
pacman -S nvidia
nvidia-xconfig

and - IT WORKS!

thanks.

arch0r · 2008-12-28 18:16:54

thunderogg wrote:

"pacman -Sy nvidia" doesn't install anything. It just syncs the rep databases. To install, you have to do "pacman -S nvidia".

pacman -Sy does install nvidia!

@topic: if you have further questions, post your xorg.conf

generic_ · 2008-12-28 18:23:57

Wait I do have a related question. I was snooping a around a ubuntu install of mine I notice that the xorg conf all said "Configured device" Configured monitor" etc are there ways of doing this in arch? What extly does that mean anyway? because if works really well.

thunderogg · 2008-12-28 18:43:40

arch0r wrote:

pacman -Sy does install nvidia!

That is embarassing.

Last edited by thunderogg (2008-12-28 18:44:16)

test1000 · 2008-12-28 18:50:42

afaik it doesn't mean anything, you could have called it "hot and sexy device" and if it had been called that throughout the xorg.conf it would have made no difference at all... See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging which basically says you don't need an xorg.conf anymore.. well just read it, it will explain all..

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[Solved] Xorg won't start with nvidia driver

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