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Hi everyone! I'm new to Arch and linux as a whole. That said, I've figured out the majority of the installation so far. I have Arch on my Thinkpad W520, but it appears that I've had some trouble with one or multiple of the following:
-missing firmware for modules
-nvidia driver installation for a quadro 1000M
-Xorg installation and configuration
I'm running a 64-bit EFI system
Here are some initial diagnostics I pulled from the laptop using nopaste:
Screenfetch: http://pastie.org/private/viqytrnlqovd4uqdvnia
xorg.conf: http://pastie.org/private/hai1ujnitburau2dmzpgg
Xorg.0.log after issuing startx: http://pastie.org/private/j0lwzhum7k8j93nrmviow
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux|nopaste: http://pastie.org/private/gszdvl5foluixxraz7vvyw
For the missing firmware, I believe one of those might be my LAN connection; I could only get wifi connections to work. Granted, I didn't mess around with my router to see if there was a problem on that end. That's less of a priority for me.
I really would like help getting Xorg up and running. Looking at the log files it seems that there's error connecting to my screen. The xorg.conf file seems bare, even after running $ sudo nvidia-xconfig. I had appended BusId "PCI:1:0:0" to the device section based on some other post that I had come across searching for help to begin with.
I'm sort of at a loss here on what to do. I've tried reinstalling linux from scratch approximately four times, and the installation has become cleaner in terms of setup each time (e.g. fewer incorrect packages installed, proper partition table structure), but each time I get hung up on this part of Xorg installation with the same error.
I just want to rice my desktop and use an OS that doesn't track everything you do ;_;
Last edited by JLipinski (2015-08-13 00:32:41)
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mk … odule_XXXX
Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … IA_Optimus ?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … Intel_iGPU
Have you tried w/o xorg.conf and nvidia-xconfig?
Last edited by karol (2015-08-13 00:07:18)
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mk … odule_XXXX
Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … IA_Optimus ?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … Intel_iGPUHave you tried w/o xorg.conf and nvidia-xconfig?
Thank you for the links!
I had tried looking with pacman to see if any packages owned xorg.conf, then moved the file. That got it to work. I didn't particularly feel comfortable with that solution.
Looking at the link you posted about Nvidia Optimus (and after I read more about it) I was able to enter into the BIOS and select the discrete graphics card. Booting into arch again allowed for the creation of xorg.conf with nvidia-xconfig. After appending the PCI Bus ID entry, startx produced the desired result.
Thank you, I was lost on this for all night after work yesterday!
That done, I will continue looking into the missing firmware issues for the two modules. Later I may try to reconfigure to actually use Nvidia Optimus instead of only using the discrete graphics card, but at least now I can install a window manager and try to get firefox running.
Last edited by JLipinski (2015-08-13 00:22:24)
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If you consider the issues solved, please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309
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I think I have a similar setup. lenova w520 with nvidia quadro 1000m. I have tried this solution but the only thing that seemed to help was adding the PCI Bus entry in the device list in the the xorg.conf file.
This change prevented the machine from freezing on boot.
I cant change the setting to "discrete card" in the bios without GRUB locking up during boot; I have to leave this setting on "integrated"?
Why does this solution not work for me?
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