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

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 partitions 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