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#1 2009-09-23 05:53:50

Ruscour
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[SOLVED]Starting X produced blank screen

Hello, thanks for reading this.
I'm trying to get X up and running.  I'm using the proprietary Nvidia driver. I've got everything that I could possibly have installed installed, and I'm really getting impatient.  It's either the driver (which I hope it isn't) or the Xorg.conf file that nvidia-xconfig set up for me.
My .xconfrc file only has exec xterm in it, though I have kde installed to set up once it starts working.
I've tried nv (same problem) and vesa (weird pink blurriness at the top of the screen).  Even that pink blurriness was better than nothing.
In tty1, though, no problems are coming up.  It's not saying anything bad, and that's what's weird.
If someone could tell me how to upload my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file somewhere, it'd be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by Ruscour (2009-09-23 06:54:19)

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#2 2009-09-23 06:20:14

otacon
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Re: [SOLVED]Starting X produced blank screen

What GPU are your using?

This is my xorg.conf

I am using two Nvidia Geforce 8800GS GPUS in sli mode and I use the pacman -Sy nvidia driver with it.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Wed May 27 01:58:49 P$

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusId          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "SLI" "Auto"
   SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

You do not need BusId and SLI  if you are not  running two graphic cards

Last edited by otacon (2009-09-23 06:22:26)


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#3 2009-09-23 06:23:45

Allan
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Re: [SOLVED]Starting X produced blank screen

Look for errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

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#4 2009-09-23 06:53:17

Ruscour
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Registered: 2009-09-23
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Re: [SOLVED]Starting X produced blank screen

Fixed, accidentally. I must have been doing something wrong, because everything now runs fine, straight away. All I did was add hal, pcm and kdm to the daemons in /etc/rc.conf file.  All is running great and blazingly fast, very glad I switched from Kubuntu :-)

Thanks for your suggestions anyway guys.

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#5 2009-09-23 06:54:28

Gen2ly
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Re: [SOLVED]Starting X produced blank screen

.xconfrc?  Hmm, I'm not familiar with it.  I'd suggest following the Beginners Guide on how to configure X.


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