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beat

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

Okay, so yesterday I decided to reinstall Archlinux and I've run into some trouble. Basically my graphics card (Nvidia 7600GS) does not want to work with Xorg 1.8 with nvidia's official drivers. It displays an error while trying to load the NVIDIA module. I have also tried the upcoming drivers available on testing and it still wouldn't work. As a last resort I tried the xf86-video-nv drivers and everything worked out of the box.

You can see the logs and configurations over here:
20-nvidia.conf: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/229593/
Xorg.0.log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/229591/
Xorg.0.log.old: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/229592/
.xinitrc: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/229590/

Also, since hal is no longer used how should I deal with automounting? Is the ck-launch-session in my .xinitrc still necessary?

Regards.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

what about dmesg? did you rebooted after installing nvidia because nvidia package has a blacklist for nouveau module.

about hal, you should not remove hal from daemon only because xorg doesn't use it. like you said, on your system hal is still needed for automouting stuff and yes ck-lauch-session is still needed

Last edited by wonder (2010-06-24 22:35:26)

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beat

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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Re: Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

Bah, I can't believe it was just the reboot. I didn't need it before that's why I didn't try it.
Thanks a lot.

Shouldn't I be able to aumount with udev? (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

Bah, I can't believe it was just the reboot. I didn't need it before that's why I didn't try it.
Thanks a lot.

because now in 2.6.34 nouveau is in the kernel tree.

Shouldn't I be able to aumount with udev? (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices)

if you have the goal the really get rid of hal (i don't see why you want that) then it should be the right wiki.

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beat

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Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 49

Re: Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

Yeah I noticed I had KMS support out-of-the box which was quite impressive A full 1680x1050 framebuffer caught my attention.

I guess I should stick with HAL, I just thought that know that Xorg isn't using it, it would become obsolete/unnecessary.

Intruder89

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From: Belgrade, Serbia

Registered: 2009-02-20

Posts: 28

Re: Xorg 1.8 - Nvidia

Hi, I have a same problem here....

beat what drivers did you finally got to work? xf86-video-nv or nouveau ? If the second, was reboot all that`s needed? I can`t get X work with anything else then nv drivers. I`ll try now to get nouveau again and reboot maybe then it will work...

Update: yup - restart worked as expected - fine problem solved.

Last edited by Intruder89 (2010-07-05 22:31:34)