[SOLVED] How can I set up my nVidia Optimus?

faidoc · 2012-02-29 17:23:30

Hi

I bought a laptop quite recently, and the first time that I installed Arch, I had some problems, but I get it working after all. But now I'm reinstalling the system and I just can't make the X server work T_T

First, I installed xorg-server, xorg-xinit and xorg-server-utils, and then the intel drivers (xf86-video-intel) and the nouveau's (xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-dri).

When I try to do for example: xinit gnome-session I get No devices detected and no screens found

In my 20-nouveau.conf I got:

Section "Device"
   Identifier "nvidia card"
   Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

and also I had added i915 and nouveau to mkinitcpio.conf

What am I missing -.- ???

Thanks

Last edited by faidoc (2012-02-29 17:50:22)

Gusar · 2012-02-29 17:34:16

The internal display is connected to the intel card. So with your config you've actually screwed things up instead of solving them. Configure the machine for intel graphics, which essentially means do nothing, or in your case, get rid of that config file. Then learn about Bumblebee.

faidoc · 2012-02-29 17:42:47

Gusar wrote:

The internal display is connected to the intel card. So with your config you've actually screwed things up instead of solving them. Configure the machine for intel graphics, which essentially means do nothing, or in your case, get rid of that config file. Then learn about Bumblebee.

Yeah, I just figure it out that. I deleted the config file and gnome show up but in fallback mode... what could be happening now?

I have already installed bumblebee btw

THanks a lot

faidoc · 2012-02-29 17:49:58

Nevermind, Solved

I just hadto reinstall gnome

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#1 2012-02-29 17:23:30

[SOLVED] How can I set up my nVidia Optimus?

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