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pimpwiser

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Registered: 2008-05-03

Posts: 9

glx driver for nvidia not found

i have read the arch wiki and looked through it for a week.  I am still having problems with the glx driver not being found.
i have tried the hwd -xa
when i run it, it says that
the pci bridge is not found,
and geforce command is also not found.

now when i do Xorg -configure

it says geforce unimplemented.
then i run X -config /root/xorg.conf.new   well, the screen with the cursor is found   then i hit  ctrl alt  backspace

and it says that the glx capable nvidia driver is not found....
i dont know what is wrong.?

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

Im going to guess you installed nvidia and nvidia-utils, have you tried running as root nvidia-xconfig

Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 108

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

If you've installed nvidia and the required nvidia-utils (should be a dependency, IIRC), you need to modprobe the module before you can use it in xorg. What card do you have?

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heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

If you've installed nvidia and the required nvidia-utils (should be a dependency, IIRC), you need to modprobe the module before you can use it in xorg. What card do you have?

What Factory said! Also, as Factory said, if you have an older card you can't use just the plain 'nvidia' and 'nvidia-utils' driver, and you'll one of the drivers for older cards (nvidia-71xx, etc)

pimpwiser

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Registered: 2008-05-03

Posts: 9

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

i have a nvidia geforce 8500

Sean-Der

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Registered: 2007-09-30

Posts: 88

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

Did you do a pacman -S nvidia and it completed sucessfully? Have ever installed the offical nVidia drivers as it sometimes can cause breakage. Also it may help to do a nvidia-xconfig and then tweak from there

pimpwiser

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Registered: 2008-05-03

Posts: 9

Re: glx driver for nvidia not found

yes i have done pacman -S nvidia and it did complete..  i installed the beta drivers from that are in arch testing.
Also, i have done the nvidia-xconfig... and it has still not configured properly.
Then i am at the part of tweaking- this is the part i will need help on. So what needs to be tweaked then in order for the glx to work correctly?