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timkilian

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Registered: 2016-03-28

Posts: 9

Startx no device detected

Hey,

I tried to get glxinfo running and installed some nvidia driver, now startx cannot find screen and i cannot start my wm. What to do? Can you give me some noobie tutorial to get startx running?  As it is way to complex, I give the glxinfo up and live with it that it is not running... But Just need startx again.

The output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
No devices detected.
Fatal Server error no screens found

mkinitcpio.conf:
MODULES=""

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is empty

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,859

Re: Startx no device detected

Post complete logs/output/versions/error messages
You appear to have posted only selected exerts from /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Startx no device detected

Can you give me some noobie tutorial to get startx running?

Sure.

If you run into issues, post the output of the information-gathering steps from that page.

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timkilian

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Registered: 2016-03-28

Posts: 9

Re: Startx no device detected

Okay thanks for the help so far, I try to uninstall all existing driver and reinstall it again, is there a way To check which driver is installed?

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Startx no device detected

check which driver is installed?

This will show the kernel driver in use:

lspci -k | grep -iA2 '\''[030[02]\]'

EDIT: "-nn" removed as unnecessary.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-11-13 17:33:53)

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kabads

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Registered: 2012-09-22

Posts: 271

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Re: Startx no device detected

It might be that you have a different module with the kernel compared to the package installed. Sometimes you need to run mkinitcpio -p as root to get the module installed correctly for the package. The way to tell this is to compare the lsmod -k |grep command that @Head_on_a_Stick has pointed out. If they are different, then that is your problem and you will need the mkinitcpio command.