[SOLVED] Nvidia Driver T-Shoot - New Install

Question

...Hello.
Just installed Arch on an office box and everything went great until I tried to access the Nvidia driver controls under XFCE4 after loading the nvidia-utils package.  The UI tells me that I "do not appear to be using the Nvidia Driver..."   I guess I'm still on Nouveau, despite following the path described in the Beginer's Guide.  Here are some system details:
uname -a
Linux 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 21:55:57 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
lspci |grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX 550] (rev a2)
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i nvidia
[ 686.487] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 686.487] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 17:12:07 PDT 2011
[ 686.488] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 686.490] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 686.490] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 686.491] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 686.495] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
[ 686.495] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
[ 686.496] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 686.496] (II) Unloading nvidia
[ 686.496] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
[ 686.498] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[ 686.504] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV43"
[ 686.860] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
...tried generating an xorg.conf via nvidia-xconfig, and this is what it produced:
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 280.13 ([email protected]) Wed Jul 27 17:15:58 PDT 2011
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
==============
...for giggles,  tried to modprobe nvidia into the kernel, and got:
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
...any help would be greatly appreciated.  I don't expect to have this much driver difficulty when I install at home next week, and this office machine is really just a practice run.  I suspect that the driver issue might be at least partially down to the fact that this is maybe not one of Nvidia's more standard SOHO-market cards.  It came in this huge Dell workstation that weighs a ton...owell. 
--Thanks
Last edited by purple12 (2011-08-21 06:34:20)

Answer 1

purple12,
Sorry, I don't have access to a system with Nvidia.  As a moderator, may I request that you use bbcode code tags around program output.  It uses a monospaced font so that columns line up, and includes scroll bars for long passages.  Your readers will appreciate you.
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Thanks.