Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install

2010/3/30 Alain Muls

Then I used lshw and the card is loisted as G96 [GeForce 9600 GT] both under Ubuntu and Arch Linux.

I uninstalled the nvidia and installed pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-config

and again no luck.

nvidia-96xx is an older driver for older chipsets. You should use the nvidia-driver. If you have kernel .33 installed, you might give the nouveau-driver a go. This driver probably only supports 2D for your card, but you'll be able to get a graphic desktop from which you can start experimenting with the right settings for the nvidia-driver. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau