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ireni

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 6

No Signal on screen Problem

Hey !

I reinstalled two times archlinux because of the same problem :

I can install it, i can boot it the first time but then each time i want to launch it my screen shut down and i am told : "no signal"

It is strange because this problem seems to occure many time, but people can't usually launch anything on their computer, and i can go on windows without any problem...
I have two hard disks, one with windows and the other with arch.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

That may mean your set the wrong (too high) resolution and / or refresh rate.
How did you set up your xorg? What's your graphic card and which driver do you use?

ireni

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 6

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

My graphic card is 7900GS and i use nvidia driver (pacman -S nvidia).
I set up my xorg with nvidia-xconfig

the problem is i launch arch in console (init3 i think) and then i type startx to go on lxde, and i can't even reach the console...or i can but without any screen

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: No Signal on screen Problem

try booting with nomodeset.

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ireni

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 6

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

How can i do it with only grub available ? i searched with c or e on grub loader but then no idea

Aarrrgghh

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Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 3

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

add nomodeset to the kernel options line, it'll look something like this

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro nomodeset

ireni

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 6

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

Now it works...without it Oo i have not idea why but seems ok ...

I still have a problem with nvidia driver. I did pacman -S nvidia, and then nvidia-xconfig (so i have the basic xorg.conf).

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 256.44  (buildmeister@builder103.nvidia.com)  Thu Jul 29 01:52:55 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And when i try startx i have a 'no screen found' error.
I will copy the entire error later in the afternoon but it's like :
[   142.319] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
[   142.335] (EE) No drivers available.

Last edited by ireni (2010-09-30 16:04:47)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: No Signal on screen Problem

Did you reboot?

Also, please use [code ] tags, not [quote ] tags for pasting code.

Last edited by karol (2010-09-30 12:46:37)