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matnik

Member

From: Kraków, Poland

Registered: 2010-11-19

Posts: 8

Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

Hello.
I've encountered a problem while installing my Xorg server, which I'd like to use with KDE.

Here's the track of my xorg installation:

# sudo pacman -Syu
# sudo pacman -S xorg

(my graphic card is vVidia GeForce 8600 GT)
# sudo pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-utils
# sudo nvidia-xconfig

(that's where I wanted to check if I did everything right)
#sudo startx

Xorg started loading and after a few secs it printed such output:

...
NVIDIA: could not open the devie file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/output error).
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:4:0:0.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please see the COMMON PROBLEMS section in the README for additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usabe configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error.

What should I do?

Dogmeat

Member

From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

You should install nvidia (pacman -Syu nvidia) and avoid using of nvidia-xconfig if it is not necessary.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

(my graphic card is vVidia GeForce 8600 GT)
# sudo pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-utils
# sudo nvidia-xconfig

1. wrong driver. the 96xx driver is for horrible old hardware, like the gf4. Install 'nvidia' and 'nvidia-utils' instead.
2. don't use nvidia-xconfig, it's not needed.
3. reboot after installing the driver if you havn't disabled kms already.

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

The reboot part  Mr.Elendig mentions is important, you can't "just check" immediately after install  because it won't work.
Also, please use [ code ] tags and not [ quote ] tags for pasting snippets of code.

matnik

Member

From: Kraków, Poland

Registered: 2010-11-19

Posts: 8

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

Ok, works, thanks.

Problem solved.

skunktrader

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

sudo startx is usually a very bad idea

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Xorg Problem -> Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!

Please mark the thread with [Solved]

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