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Io

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Registered: 2020-04-22

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[Solved] black screen, fans downpowering when calling startx

I did fresh arch install on my desktop. When I try to start xmonad, the screen turns black and some of the fans turn off, the rig becoming noticably quieter.

Video Card: GTX 1060 (NV 130)
Drivers: nvidia-lts, nvidia-utils

Other
- I have not set an xorg.conf
- I was running Solus before just fine and decided to distrohop.
- Similar issue

Xorg.0.log

Xorg.1.log

dmesg output

Excerpt from Xorg.1.log

[   297.103] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (GP106-A) at PCI:1:0:0
[   297.103] (II) NVIDIA(0):     (GPU-0)
[   297.103] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 3145728 kBytes
[   297.103] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 86.06.11.00.1f
[   297.103] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[   297.103] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to acquire modesetting permission.
[   297.103] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen
[   297.104] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[   297.104] (II) UnloadSubModule: "glxserver_nvidia"
[   297.104] (II) Unloading glxserver_nvidia
[   297.104] (II) UnloadSubModule: "wfb"
[   297.104] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fb"
[   297.104] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[   297.104] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[   297.104] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[   297.104] (EE)

I want to know how to fix the modesetting permissions.

Last edited by Io (2020-04-22 06:29:00)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] black screen, fans downpowering when calling startx

The 0 log file shows X ran successfully. Try and start twm and xclock from your xinitrc as per the default file. If that works, your error is definitely with xmonad.

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Io

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Registered: 2020-04-22

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] black screen, fans downpowering when calling startx

xclock works. thanks.