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Hi All,

I am using Ubuntu since 2005 and I like it. The only problem is that each 6 month I am spending some time to update. I have for that 2 root

On 03/30/2010 06:40 PM, Alain Muls wrote: partitions

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available.

I heard about Arch Linux and its rolling release and decided to try it out.

The base install went fine and I have a running core system.

So I decided to tackle the X server which under Ubuntu uses the nvidia proprietary driver.

I installed pacman -S nvidia nvidia-config

and gave startx from my user account a try. No luck, the message was cannot load module nvidia.

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.

How can I get this card up and running with full hw support as under Ubuntu?

Tx/Alain

you should really read beginners guide. everything is covered there. everything have to installed. after a core installation be sure to fully update the system: pacman -Syu

after that you _need_ to install xorg. pacman -S xorg

after that you may decide what driver you want to use. pacman -S nvidia

-- Ionut

Hi

That is exactly what I did. I am not a beginner and have read quite some articles about Arch and I am aware of the fact that I have to follow carefully all steps in this installation process. So pleas bear with me and hep me over this problem. Since it failed I tried to identify the card (I did not know the lshw command before) and redid the steps with the driver for the nvidia-96xx card. Again no X-screen. I also copied the xorg.conf from Ubuntu over to Arch but again no X server that would run. I also tried the nouveau driver and he is given as error: (EE) [drm] failed to open device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found It is the second time I try to install Arch, I really want to try out this rolling principle, but again I am unable to get up the X server which is working without flaws in Ubuntu.