[Unsolved] nVidia - Nouveau - KMS not enabled

Question

I'm getting the following trying to start x (via startx):
[ 225.188] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled
From what i understand, this shouldn't be in grub.cnfg but it is:
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod vga
Even so, i've done this so far:
* nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES="nouveau"
* modinfo nouveau
filename: /lib/modules/3.9.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.gz
license: GPL and additional rights
description: nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce/Quadro/Tesla
author: Nouveau Project
alias: pci:v000012D2d*sv*sd*bc03sc*i*
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc*i*
depends: drm,drm_kms_helper,ttm,mxm-wmi,i2c-core,button,wmi,video,i2c-algo-bit
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.9.2-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
parm: perflvl:Performance level (default: boot) (charp)
parm: perflvl_wr:Allow perflvl changes (warning: dangerous!) (int)
parm: tv_norm:Default TV norm.
Supported: PAL, PAL-M, PAL-N, PAL-Nc, NTSC-M, NTSC-J,
hd480i, hd480p, hd576i, hd576p, hd720p, hd1080i.
Default: PAL
*NOTE* Ignored for cards with external TV encoders. (charp)
parm: tv_disable:Disable TV-out detection (int)
parm: ignorelid:Ignore ACPI lid status (int)
parm: duallink:Allow dual-link TMDS (default: enabled) (int)
parm: nofbaccel:Disable fbcon acceleration (int)
parm: agpmode:AGP mode (0 to disable AGP) (int)
parm: vram_pushbuf:Create DMA push buffers in VRAM (int)
parm: config:option string to pass to driver core (charp)
parm: debug:debug string to pass to driver core (charp)
parm: noaccel:disable kernel/abi16 acceleration (int)
parm: modeset:enable driver (default: auto, 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled, 2 = headless) (int)
And my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-gpudriver.conf looks like this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16 #Choose the depth (16||24)
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768_75.00" #Choose the resolution
EndSubSection
EndSection
What am i doing wrong?
Packages installed:
* xf86-video-nouveau
* xorg-server
* xorg-utils
* fluxbox
Last edited by Torxed (2013-05-20 18:18:04)

Answer 1

proudzhu wrote:Did you run "mkinitcpio -p linux" after edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf?
I'm 99% sure i did, i think it's even mentioned in one of the guides.
Anyway i think this case will have to be closed for further discussion because the reason for this issue-thread
was the fact that my brother (living in another country) couldn't get his graphics to start up and i remotely helped him (he tried starting X, obviously) and I acted as the support.
However he droped ArchLinux (as is) for Manjaro (which worked beautifully with Xface off the bat, so my guess is that i missed something in the setup because running on my Dell ArchLinux runs perfect).l