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sphix

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Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 2

[solved] x server does not find screen

I was following the websites begginer instructions and couldn't get the X11 server to work. I have an nVidia 9600M graphics card and the following files are my configs:

~/.xinit
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/210336
/etc/xorg.conf
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/210337
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/210338
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/210339

I'm running on a HP dv5t laptop. The error looks like:
Fatal server error:
no screens found

Thanks in advanced!

Last edited by sphix (2010-05-06 03:34:02)

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: [solved] x server does not find screen

sphix,

your xorg.conf is probably confusing X, possibly the screen section.

Please try with a minimal xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver        "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

If this works, you can build from it. If it doesn't, try without a xorg.conf at all. Only in this last case it would not use the
nvidia driver.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [solved] x server does not find screen

you use the wrong nvidia driver. For your card you need the "nvidia" package from our repos and not nvidia-96xx.

pacman -Rd nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-utils 
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

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sphix

Member

Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] x server does not find screen

Thanks guys. It was the drivers it seem! I assumed 96xx mean good for a 9600 model.... I didn't read the exacts on it carefully enough.