xorg 1.8 and nvidia drivers 'nvidia-xconfig' NEED tip to fix

yvonney · 2010-04-17 23:26:09

[what part of my xorg.conf needs to me moved, and to where?]

Hi, I routinely swap between intel, savage, nvidia drivers running my ARCH install off my USB.

Ok, so I'm using xorg 1.8 and the intel works though of course the nividia with nvidia-xconfig command writes and xorg.conf to
/etc/X11

Right, so I am aware, I believe the it's now the xorg.d folder. and, it currenly has 3 files in it, none of which say
xorg.conf of course. The three are named starting with '10-' you know the ones. :-)

So, what, where, how with my xorg.cong of other, do i get myself running again? With your help i'd say!

thanks.

Kernel-1 · 2010-04-17 23:55:32

Let nvidia-xconfig make xorg.conf in an "old fashion" (/etc/X11/xorg.conf), and then just add this to it:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "True"
EndSection

Works for me (X 1.8 and up-to-date nvidia driver from repos)

Last edited by Kernel-1 (2010-04-17 23:58:14)

yvonney · 2010-04-18 00:34:37

woohoo! thank you.
in the error i got it did seem like xorg was looking at both the folder files in xorg.d AND /etc/x11/xorg.conf
So, xorg will still look at the xorg.conf file. interesting.
will try and then write back if i'm not fortunate.

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-18 00:47:22)

yvonney · 2010-04-18 00:51:25

So, added that near the top after ServerLayout

now it hangs with flashing cursor though I get different info

warning this server has a video ABI version of 7.0 that this driver does not officially support.etc. etc. etc.

Use the -ignorABI option to override this check.

failed to load module nvidia
fatal server error
no screen found

Can you think of what I've done wrong?
i'm running latest everything though not 'testing' repo.

maybe put the 'ServerFlags" near the bottom?

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-18 00:51:47)

yvonney · 2010-04-18 00:55:41

UPDATE: used X -configure instead of nvidia-xconfig
xorg.conf a bit different and uses vesa though knows it's an nvidia card.
So now I'm at least able to run X

Still looking for what i've not done right etc. Though good to be Xing again.

flamelab · 2010-04-18 00:56:02

Look what you can do here

yvonney · 2010-04-18 01:10:55

nice: enjoying the struggle here as always. Big thanks to you both! talleyhoo!

yvonney · 2010-04-18 03:39:00

After running for a few hours with the xorg.conf that was generated with X -configure (manually moved of course to /etc/X11) wth adding the ServerFlags stuff I was able to run with Vesa at 800x600.

Just found the time to try nvidia-xconfig WHILE X was running under vesa and the resultant xorg.conf was different, presumably due to X running compared to being at the 'unsuccessful' boot up console prompt doing an nvidia-xconfig. (sorry for lack of detail)

So I put the ServerFlags stuff in it rebooted and back to running at full res. Haven't the time to figure out the finer points right now.

Kernel-1 · 2010-04-18 19:26:28

I remember just...

1. installing nvidia driver (pacman -S nvidia)
2. running nvidia-xconfig just after that
3. Adding that ignoreABI stuff to /etc/X11/xorg.conf made by nvidia-xconfig
4. rebooting in full-res.

Last edited by Kernel-1 (2010-04-18 19:27:17)

.:B:. · 2010-04-18 21:21:49

This might not be part of the [testing] repo per se, but the dedicated Xorg 1.8 repo *is* testing ground, so I'm moving this to a more appropriate location.

jwbirdsong · 2010-04-28 06:14:50

.:B:. wrote:

This might not be part of the [testing] repo per se,........

Well it is now... so nvidia users make SURE to read this before updating if you've not read it already.
[ignore]Because you DO still need ignoreABI server flag. At least I did after updating 30 min ago.[/ignore]
( I was glad I read it before hand!!)

EDIT..... Retraction

Last edited by jwbirdsong (2010-04-28 14:40:51)

Pierre · 2010-04-28 06:22:19

Nope, it's not needed. The nvidia driver in testing supports xorg-server 1.8.

jwbirdsong · 2010-04-28 14:33:48

Ahh that must be the issue.. for what ever reason I didn't pull in a new nvidia w/ update. thought it was strange there was no update w/ Xorg.
I still at local/nvidia 195.36.15-2
Will wee if I can pull it in from a diff mirror.

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#1 2010-04-17 23:26:09

xorg 1.8 and nvidia drivers 'nvidia-xconfig' NEED tip to fix

#2 2010-04-17 23:55:32

Re: xorg 1.8 and nvidia drivers 'nvidia-xconfig' NEED tip to fix

#3 2010-04-18 00:34:37

Re: xorg 1.8 and nvidia drivers 'nvidia-xconfig' NEED tip to fix

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