[arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

Nicolas Bigaouette nbigaouette at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 17:09:04 EDT 2009


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

2009/4/22 David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>

> Holloway wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:00:41AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >>      I have found /etc/rc.d/kdm3, and I am searching for where it gets
> called by
> >> startx -- any hints? Also, I'll try downgrading the nvidia driver, in
> the mean
> >> time.
> >
> > One way is to put kdm3 in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf.  Then it
> > magically appears at boot time.
> >
> > If you want to start KDE through startx you have to edit your
> > ~/.xinitrc.
> >
> > Greets
> >
>
>        Herein lies the problem, I have no ~/.xinitrc,
>
> [15:01 archangel:/etc/X11] # l /home/david
> total 80
> drwx------ 10 david  1052 4096 2009-04-22 04:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  root  4096 2009-04-21 00:07 ..
> -rw-------  1 david david    0 2009-04-22 04:20 .Xauthority
> -rw-r--r--  1 david  1052 1510 2009-04-22 04:21 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r--  1 david  1052   16 2009-01-28 13:30 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r--  1 david  1052 7019 2009-04-21 22:56 .bashrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 david david  108 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc.sav
> -rw-r--r--  1 david david 6855 2009-04-21 00:12 .bashrc~
> -rw-r--r--  1 david  1052    0 2009-04-20 23:53 .fonts
> -rw-r--r--  1 david  1052    0 2009-04-20 23:53 .inputrc
> drwxr-xr-x  3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .kde
> -rw-------  1 david david  128 2009-04-21 00:13 .my.cnf
> drwxr-xr-x  2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:05 .qt
> drwx------  2 david david 4096 2009-04-21 13:06 .ssh
> -rw-------  1 david david 1723 2009-04-21 23:21 .viminfo
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 david david 1446 2009-04-22 02:03 .xinitrc.template
> drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-21 16:16 Documents
> drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-21 23:34 bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 david david 4096 2009-04-21 17:29 linux
> drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 public_html
> drwxr-xr-x  2 david  1052 4096 2009-04-20 23:51 tmp
>
>        The .xinitrc.template above is just what I copied from openSuSE that
> I've been
> picking through to come up with an .xinitrc that will work. I haven't had
> time
> to completely finish messing with it yet, but that's for this evening.
> After
> comments, I think my approach will be to mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf to
> xorg.conf.sav, regen an xorg.conf with nvidia-config and failing that,
> remove
> xorg.conf all together and try it that way. I'll report back.
>
>        One other question. I wasn't able to locate the nv opensource kernel
> module.
> Anybody know where it's hidden just in case the nvidia driver itself
> refuses to
> work? Thanks.
>
> --
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