[arch-general] Getting X running on new install

[Vincent Van Houtte]

2010/3/30 Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>

>
> 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.
>

nvidia-96xx is an older driver for older chipsets. You should use the
nvidia-driver.

If you have kernel .33 installed, you might give the nouveau-driver a go.
This driver probably only supports 2D for your card, but you'll be able to
get a graphic desktop from which you can start experimenting with the right
settings for the nvidia-driver.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau