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Varreon

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 95

(SOLVED)-I need the nvidia-71xx driver.

So in my initial arch install, I was using nvidia-71xx drivers. Its a rather old machine, and this just worked for me.
My graphic card is an nvidia TNT Riva 2 or a TNT Riva Pro, I'm not sure which.

From within my window manager:
So today, I attempted to install nexuiz, and it was giving me errors about being unable to go fullscreen. I figured that updating my nvidia driver would fix it, so I did a `pacman -S nvidia as` root. The game gave me errors about my gpu not being sse compatible. From here I just gave up on the games.

Then I restarted my xserver, and upon calling `startx`, it said no screen could be found. I assumed its because of updating the driver, and that it was incompatible with my hardware.

Now I'm stuck within the shell.
Nvidia-96xx isn't working for me, as it says the graphic kernel version doesn't match. I read that nvidia-71xx is no longer in the repos, and I don't know how I get my X11 running again.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Last edited by Varreon (2008-12-14 18:42:26)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: (SOLVED)-I need the nvidia-71xx driver.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/424/
See the point about nvidia-71xx driver.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-12-14 01:05:58)

Varreon

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 95

Re: (SOLVED)-I need the nvidia-71xx driver.

In order for pacman to accept xf86-video-nv, I had to forcibly remove nvidia-96xx-utils(pacman -Rd nvidia-96xx-utils). Startx still complains that there are no displays. I su to root and try xorg-cfg(running it once and then quitting generally works), which starts up okay, and then hangs. I have no control of either the keyboard or the mouse, and the machine has crashed.

What changes to the xorg config file must be made for startx to work? Or is there a different approach to fix this?

Ruckus

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 204

Re: (SOLVED)-I need the nvidia-71xx driver.

Try using a blank xorg.conf

Varreon

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 95

Re: (SOLVED)-I need the nvidia-71xx driver.

I cleared xorg.conf, and attempted startx. This was able to generate a display, but crashed the rest of my system.

I had to turn my machine off with the power button, and now it will have to recheck the hdd. I'll try xorgcfg after it finishes.

Edit: It crashes with xorgcfg as well. I've noticed that its a higher display than when I had the 71xx driver. I'll just try changing the modelines and see if that works.

Edit again: Modelines weren't the problem, but rather that xorg wasn't detecting mouse and keyboard. Hwd fixed this for me, and now I've got a higher resolution than before I had issues .

Last edited by Varreon (2008-12-14 18:42:06)