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gribblygook

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Registered: 2018-08-12

Posts: 23

[Solved] Graphics can't find display

I'm struggling with trying to set up my graphics. I have an integrated intel graphics and a separate nvidia graphics card, I'm planning on using bumblebee to only use the nvidia graphics card for certain things (but at the moment any way of getting it working will do!).

I'm going through the bumblebee wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee#Usage

Trying to run

 optirun glxspheres64 

but i'm getting the error

Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres)
ERROR in line 614:
Could not open display

Also when trying to run startx I get an error and the logs towards the end are:

(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadSubModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadSubModule: "fb"
(EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found(EE)

On a side note, the graphics work straight away when running on an Ubuntu live USB. Is there anyway of digging around the configs or logs of Ubuntu to see what that's loading to make it work?

Thanks

Last edited by gribblygook (2018-08-18 19:09:58)

gribblygook

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Registered: 2018-08-12

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Graphics can't find display

Haven't managed to get nvidia to work yet however managed to get intel integrated graphics working. If anyone is running into a similar problem I reinstalled Arch.

On the first time around I installed the nvidia libraries

 nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-libglvnd lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings 

On the second time round I didn't install anything to do with nvidia and just installed these

 xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm