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Enk

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Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 7

Finding the right graphic driver

Hi, and in advance thanks for any replies

I've just migrated from Ubuntu to Arch (wanted more freedom + learn more), but I'm having a hard time finding a good graphic card driver.

Currently I am running X with xfce4 using the vesa-driver (slow and low resolution :S )

I've tried installing drivers from nvidia's site, and tried installing nvidia/nvidia-utils from pacman and running nvidia-xconfig, but neither work (tried xf86-video-nv too, without luck).

When running X with those drivers, the screen goes black for 1-2s, then a big NVIDIA logo appears, and then it goes to black again and stays black.

I got an error message, but can't see it in Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old)? I think the error message said something about some keyboard stuff being 1 when it is supposed to be 2? Sorry, I don't remember it

Also I remember that the error message said "the error is not critical to Xorg" or something?

lspci | grep VGA: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev a2)