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aaa234

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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[Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

I installed arch one month ago and I used nouveau. One day, I determined to change to intel/nvidia for better performance and I installed bumblebee(as the wiki), copied the xorg.conf and renamed it as 20-nvidia.conf and then moved it into xorg.conf.d;after reboot, it gave me no device detected error and I solved it by inserting busIDs to 20-nvidia.conf. Then I rebooted again, startx and it freezes at configuring; but I can still switch ttys. How can I solve it????

Last edited by aaa234 (2015-09-27 13:20:34)

krork

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Registered: 2013-06-08

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

Did you remove nouveau with pacman -Rs? Also, what's in your 20-nvidia.conf? What's the output of

lspsci | grep VGA

?

Also, did you remove mesa and mesa-libgl and make sure that you undid any configuration you might have done from here?

Last edited by krork (2015-09-23 08:31:26)

aaa234

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

Sorry for my late reply ! today was my assignments deadline day. Yes, I removed nouveau and even blacklisted to be sure. I copied the whole configuration of xorg.conf, which I got after nvidia-xconfig, then pasted it in 20-nvidia.conf and placed that 20-nvidia.conf under xorg.conf.d. The output is

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core processor Integrated Graphics controller (rev06) 

I can't remove those two packages because dependencies. No, I didn't do any configuration from nouveau wiki.

aaa234

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

Update : I removed bumblebee, /etc/X11/xorg.conf , /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf ,usr/share/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf and x server started again. I am now on intel graphics and still can't use nvidia yet. Any idea to be able to use nvidia????

Last edited by aaa234 (2015-09-24 14:40:27)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

Why and what for did you have an nvidia.conf in your xorg directories and what were its contents ? Was it a config created by bumblebee? I read through the whole Bumblebee article and have not seen a mention of a  autogenerated  nvidia-xconfig xorg. Follow the bumblebee article again and don't do stuff that isn't mentioned in there

And next time something doesn't work, attach the Xorg logs so that one can even attempt to help resolve this

Last edited by V1del (2015-09-24 14:49:30)

aaa234

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

I followed every single details from bumblebee wiki, then I followed nvidia arch wiki to configure nvidia ( I thought I needed to, sry if I was wrong). I tried to attach logs but I am in tty mode and it does not detect my USB. p.s:all the logs do not show any kind of errors.

aaa234

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Re: [Solved]I can't startx, it freezes

Error has been solved following this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190187