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chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

[SOLVED] pacman -Syu Xorg & nvidia driver. Now no GUI

Hi All,

just installed Arch this week after leaving Gentoo, and up to this point I have been enjoying the experience.  Updated stuff this evening with 'pacman -Syu' and a new version of xorg-server and the nvidia driver were installed. However, on booting I end up at a CLI login rather than KDE.  Help, no idea really where to start to solve this.

Looking forward to loads of responses,

Igg

Last edited by chsims1 (2008-11-30 20:36:09)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu Xorg & nvidia driver. Now no GUI

Well, first of all you should post your Xorg.0.log so that we can determine what the problem might be.

Off the top of my head: you might need to comment out the RGB colors line (I don't remember exactly what it is) from xorg.conf since the new xorg will not start with this line in the config file.

chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu Xorg & nvidia driver. Now no GUI

Well, typing on my wife's laptop here. Xorg.0.log says in precis:

Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
     "RgbPath" is not a valid keyword in this section.

Presumably this is what you have just posted .... thank you for that.

Continuing:

Fatal server error:
no screens found
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDESETMODE failed: BAd file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor

So, presumably to do with the Nvidia driver?? But what do I need to do to sort it?

chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu Xorg & nvidia driver. Now no GUI

Well blow me .... that was all it was .... removal of the Rgbpath was all that was needed. If anyone has a simple explanation of this, then it would be very much welcome.

Thanks again fwojciec, and back to the playing with this new (and really quite exciting distro),

regards,

Igg

Last edited by chsims1 (2008-11-30 20:43:06)

sinister99

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Registered: 2007-04-10

Posts: 136

Re: [SOLVED] pacman -Syu Xorg & nvidia driver. Now no GUI

Just look at the log:

Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
     "RgbPath" is not a valid keyword in this section.

It fails immediately after that.