[arch-general] startx failed: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Operation not permitted

[Bryan White]

Make sure nouveau is blacklisted. 
I can't check right now, but I think I used "needs_root_rights = yes"  to get mine working. 
Also make sure nouveau is not in your initramfs either.  The driver will fail with newer cards.  It's poison with my 880M.


On February 6, 2015 1:51:11 PM EST, "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>well, I'm lost totally here.
>I don't know how to start my X Window system with proprietary Nvidia
>driver.
>I must to use it because an application needs it.
>
>I tried in the Xwrapper.config the 'needs_root_rights = no',
>I tried to remove ~/.xinitrc to start X with defaults,
>I tried the '30-nvidia.conf' with
>Section "Device"
>  Identifier "Nvidia Card"
>  Driver "nvidia"
>  VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>  Option "NoLogo" "True"
>EndSection
>
>but just can't to start X Window system with
>'startx' command.
>
>I have installed:
>kernel version: 3.14.31-1-lts
>nvidia-304xx-lts
>nvidia-304xx-libgl
>nvidia-304xx-utils
>
>I look into '~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log'
>and see that that Xorg even not see the nvidia driver!?
>
>Xorg tries to load other modules but nvidia not, and finally gives the
>following error message:
>'No drivers available
>Fatal server error:
>no screens found(EE)
>
>Please, help me to solve this problem.
>
>--
>Regards from Pal

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