Problem Installing the Graphical environment

Question

Hello there need your help! Following this guide : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … _Interface i'm trying for hours to install a graphical environment!Everything is ok i think until the " rm ~/.xinitrc" command!I get " cannot remove `/root/xinitrc' ": No such file or directory! I read a lot of times the guide but i can't find why there is not this file in my system!Please someone help me!ASAP!Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

thestinger wrote:
The proprietary nvidia driver will require configuration. Follow the suggestion in the Beginners' Guide and use nouveau first (it has a section with instructions for nvidia cards), so you don't need a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Once you get it working, you can switch to the closed source driver if you still want to.
Just start back at this step:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … _Install_X.
You should remove the 'nvidia' package and reboot first to make sure the module isn't loaded and nouveau is loaded (the kernel module doesn't need to be installed, it will just load when you reboot).
Then, you just need xorg and xf86-video-nouveau, along with mesa and nouveau-dri if you want 3d. If you've made an xorg.conf, delete it, and just use the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf that the guide tells you to make.
Switch to your regular user, make sure there's no .xinitrc, and startx will work fine.
I started from this step and when a typed
startx
i got the
no screens found
error :(:(:(
edit: now i noticed: how do i remove the nvidia package?
Last edited by sepuku (2010-12-12 21:00:00)