Nicolas Bigaouette wrote:
nvidia is the closed-source driver. He was asking for the "open-source" nv, which I think has been dropped by Arch, IIRC. xf86-video-nouveau is a reversed engineered driver that should provide 2D and 3D capabilities, something nv was not able to do.
2009/4/22 David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>
Nicolas Bigaouette wrote:
If you want KDE to start when you startx, put "startkde" in your .xinitrc.
As for the nv driver, its not a kernel driver, its an Xorg driver. It's been drop since it sucks ****. Instead try nouveau: pacman -S extra/xf86-video-nouveau
Or perhaps "pacman -S nvidia"
DR
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