Nvidia driver problems

I am a newbie to Arch Linux migrating from Ubuntu. Arch Linux seemed like the perfect operating system and sounded like it would be 'fun' to try and get it working. Unfortunetly I'm used to things working mostly out of the box (ie Ubuntu). I have gotten most things to work fairly well, except for two things: fonts and nvidia drivers. When I finally got xorg/enlightenment to just work, I remembered I would have to get nvidia drivers to get my full resolution (1680x1050) and to play some games. I went to the wiki, and followed the instructions exactly. No luck. I then tried just using 'nvidia-xconfig' to make my xorg configuration. No dice. I also have no idea how to get fonts to work, xorg reports lots of missing files and I have no clue what to do. I would like the default ubuntu fonts to work in firefox . My video card is a GeForce 7950GT. Here is my Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.ca/raw/635972 (this is the one that is produced when I use the 'nvidia-xconfig' configuration) and here is my lspci: http://pastebin.ca/raw/635979 here is the xorg.conf made with 'hwd -xa': http://pastebin.ca/raw/635981 (which works) and heres the xorg.conf make with 'nvidia-xconfig': http://pastebin.ca/raw/635982 (which produces the errors in the log I listed)
Thanks,
DJ
Last edited by cactusbin (2007-07-27 14:57:36)

Hm, according to your xorg log, your nvidia kernel module isn't being loaded.  What happens when you try to issue
sudo modprobe nvidia
?  What's the error message?  More detail can be garnered by running
dmesg | tail
immediately after the modprobe.
Also, since I'm not too hip on nvidia lore, and I'm not too sure how new or old a 7950GT is, it's worth mentioning: we have three nvidia packages in our repos:  nvidia (newer cards), nvidia-96xx (not-too-new cards), nvidia-71xx (older cards) - you might want to make sure you've installed the correct one.
-edit- Ack, you edited your post on me.  Your hwd -xa config file works because it's using the 'vesa' driver, which is basically the one-size-fits-all driver that works for everything.  The other one isn't working because it's trying to use the proprietary nvidia driver, but as I mentioned above, the kernel module isn't loading properly. -/edit-
Last edited by Cerebral (2007-07-27 14:59:10)

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