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Rede

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Registered: 2009-02-27

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Help setting up X

Hi  there,

I have just installed 2009.02 and am having problems with my xorg configuration.

I have the 9800 gx2. I have tried the confs generated by X, nvidia and hwd. hwd is the only one which works but it is using the vesa driver, when I try to swap over to the nvidia driver my screen just goes blank and then into power saving mode. It then requires a reboot to try again.

If anyone has any ideas let me know.

Thanks,
Rede

cschep

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Registered: 2006-12-02

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Re: Help setting up X

Have you read the wiki about xorg? It is pretty solid.

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

Other than that, maybe post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it might have a clue for us to try to help you.

have you pacman -S nvidia ?
have you tried nvidia-xconfig ?

this might help as well...

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

good luck!

Rede

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Registered: 2009-02-27

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Re: Help setting up X

I am using the wiki as my guide. I used "pacman -S nvidia" to install the driver.

As I am on another pc I will post the errors contained in the log:

(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist)
(EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist)
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (compatible NVIDIA X Driver not found)

I believe this to be the result of the xorg.conf file generated by "hwd -x".

I have to take off for a while now, I will try any ideas when I return in a few hours.

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

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Re: Help setting up X

If hal is running , You should try a minimal xorg.conf

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

X.org uses hal now for input hotplugging . More information can be found here .

You should probably install nvidia-utils too .

Last edited by Nezmer (2009-02-27 13:08:49)

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