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

[Andrei Thorp]

You don't get an .xinitrc by default.

-AT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette
<nbigaouette at gmail.com> 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 at 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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