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XeroXer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-01-13

Posts: 9

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no screens found -> dell p992

Hi there!

I installed ArchLinux on my computer the other day.
On the same computer I also have Windows XP.
I have made it (with help) so that both OS's work.

I decided to get KDE for Arch.
I used pacman to install KDE and also xorg.
I created the xorg config by going through the guide.

I also installed the nvidia drivers from the [extra].
(Though the problem was there before this.)

When I had gone through the complete guide and set up everything I tried to start by doing startx.
I then got the error:
no screens found
So I searched the web and changed the config file to suit my hardware.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
   SubSection "extmod"
   Option "omit xfree86-dga"
   EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "se"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL P992"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-107
VertRefresh 48-170
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce3 Ti 500"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "GeForce3 Ti 500"
Monitor "DELL P992"
DefaultDepth 24
   SubSection "Display"
   Depth 8
   Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Depth 16
   Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Depth 24
   Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Inputdevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

A lot of commented rows are in there to but I left them out.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

(WW) 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi".
     Entry deleted from font path.
     (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi")
(WW) 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi".
     Entry deleted from font path.
     (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi")
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     The NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     more information. The 1.0-9746 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     this GPU. Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

This is the rows that start with (WW) or (EE). I left out the other ones.

If anyone has any idea on how I can fix this problem please help.
I have searched the web and haven't really found anything that helps me.

subatomic

Member

From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-06-26

Posts: 180

Re: no screens found -> dell p992

no need to search the entire web, check the archwiki first.
besides the answer lies right here

(WW) NVIDIA(0):     The NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers.

try the nvidia-96xx driver and utils

XeroXer

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-01-13

Posts: 9

Website

Re: no screens found -> dell p992

Big thanks to you subatomic.
I now got in and could log in to my account in kde.