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2mac

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 95

X11 no screens found after PC migration

I recently bought a new system, and I cloned my hard drive onto it.

The only issue that I thought would happen is that the main graphics card is now NVIDIA instead of Intel.

I switched out some drivers (exchanged xf86-video-intel for nvidia), but when I boot up, the bootloader (GRUB) is not detecting my screen resolution (everything in big font), and my login manager doesn't start. If I log into a TTY and run startx, I get a no screens found error and can't connect to the X server.

I examined the log, and it's trying to load an intel module that isn't there. How can I tell X11 to use the right modules? Could this be linked to the same problem that causes my resolution not to be detected? On the original machine, I still had a full-res GRUB and init dialog. Since the clone, it's extremely low-res.

Please advise.

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

Posts: 692

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Re: X11 no screens found after PC migration

i had the same situation recently and it really wasn't that hard to change, with the help of our great wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

if you still have the problem after following it, please post more detailed information, like real terminal output and error messages.

Kartious

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From: UK

Registered: 2013-03-23

Posts: 311

Re: X11 no screens found after PC migration

Can you post

lspci -v | grep VGA
pacman -Qs intel
pacman -Qs nvidia

Last edited by Kartious (2014-05-16 08:12:07)

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