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#1 2018-01-18 02:56:38

nikonmsn
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asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

This is the laptop with intel graphics + nvidia 940mx gpu

when i do

lspci | grep -i vga i see

>> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)

lspci | grep -i 3d i see my nvidia card

>> 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [Geforce 940MX] (rev a2)

I've installed nvidia package and xfce4, xterm, xorg, etc.

I've got everything working just fine on an older laptop with an older nvidia graphics card -- i know what's involved in setting it up (or so i thought)

When i `startx` laptop screen goes blank until i hit Ctrl + D at which point it just says:

waiting for X server to shutdown XIO:    fatal IO error 4 (Interrupted system call) on X server ":0"
        after 1141 requests (1141 known processed) with 1 events remaining
xterm: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) or KillClient on X server ":0"
xterm: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) or KillClient on X server ":0"
(II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows some errors and a few warnings:

The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist
Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
Warning could not open module "nouveau"

error: Failed to load module nv does not exist
error: Failed to load module "intel" does not exist
error: Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist)

(Do i need those ^ i thought i could get away with just nvidia drivers???)

some nvidia warnings:

Nvidia: unable to get display device for DPI computation
Nvidia: option primary gpu is not used


When i `startxfce4` laptop screen goes blank and i cannot come back with Ctrl + D -- have to hard reboot

I need some help trouble shooting this. It's a brand new laptop with an i7 intel chip, i did not have any issues with older lap top, which has way older hw so this was a surprise!

Do i need to do somehting in my bios? set nvidia as primary gpu? i plan on using a dual monitor setup sometimes with this laptop, i dunno if hdmi port is on nvidia card (i guess so because i think it runs off nvidia driver on windows)

Anyway, kind of stumped, i guess will try to install intel driver package? Please help

Last edited by nikonmsn (2018-01-19 19:08:30)

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#2 2018-01-18 03:25:51

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]


No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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#3 2018-01-18 03:43:27

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code


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#4 2018-01-19 00:34:26

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

Installed bumblebee as directed in the article and everything worked.

Didn't know about optimus, didn't know there was a whole other thing to it.

Thanks.

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#5 2018-01-19 02:49:51

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

Read the link to the Code of Conduct I posted. All of it.


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#6 2018-01-19 03:52:58

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

jasonwryan wrote:

Read the link to the Code of Conduct I posted. All of it.

Ok, what are you getting at?

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#7 2018-01-19 03:58:41

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Re: asus vivobook s510uq startx not working [SOLVED]

Fix your code blocks and mark your thread as solved.


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