On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 20:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hi :)
until now I switch between the FLOSS nv driver and the proprietary nvidia driver at startup, depending to the kernel I boot. IOW I use the nv driver with kernel-rt and the proprietary with 3.5.3-1-ARCH.
If I try to boot the kernel-rt, I get a black screen.
[spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-rt | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-utils | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi xf86-video-nv | grep Ver Version : 2.1.20-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(!69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq)
Any ideas? The graphics is a GeForce 7200 GS. The nv driver is ok, but I have to readjust the monitor if I switch from nvidia and soon or later it will be dropped. The vesa driver won't provide the needed resolution and noveau
Apologize. ... nouveau never worked on my machine. Regards, Ralf PS: Before I'll add a note to AUR, I want to know, if there's any alternative to nouveau and nv, assumed I won't get nvidia to work.