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FuturisticFume

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Registered: 2018-04-12

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Xorg no screens found

I'm trying to launch i3 with xinit or startx, but after trying everything I've found, I'm still running into the same error that no screens can be found:

I have installed nvidia-lts, nvidia-libgl, libglvnd, xorg-server and xorg-xinit.  I initially used nvidia-config, read it was bad, uninstalled/reinstalled all nvidia packages and ended up with the files below.

lspci | grep 'VGA':

06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] (rev a1)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
	Load "modesetting"
EndSection 

Section "Device" 
	Identifier "nvidia"
	Driver "nvidia"    
	BusID "6:0:0"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

/var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://pastebin.com/dyUmqhbJ

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf: https://pastebin.com/wjm73rEL

~/.xinitrc: https://pastebin.com/FYH9MhkD

Threads tried:
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149368
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=223581
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173153

Have also read through more, but they weren't as relevant or useful.

Last edited by FuturisticFume (2018-04-12 10:53:18)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,659

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg no screens found

You don't have an Optimus system, the directives from the Optimus page do not apply to you. Remove that xorg.conf and the two xrandr lines from your .xinitrc. And adding the modules to mkinitcpio is usually also not required, though you can do that. You will just have to remember to rebuild your mkinitcpio manually if there's an nvidia update that isn't accompanied by a kernel update (that happens seldomly though) or explicitly create a hook

Also you are using the stable kernel, so you need the nvidia package and not the nvidia-lts package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … stallation

Last edited by V1del (2018-04-12 10:52:14)

FuturisticFume

Member

Registered: 2018-04-12

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg no screens found

Okay, so I did everything you said, and I can launch i3 again. Thanks for the help!

Last edited by FuturisticFume (2018-04-23 06:49:04)