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Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #15 –
why you use so obsur driver as xf86-video-vesa?  what graphics card do you have? 

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #17 –
I did not choose to use it. The laptop has a Nvidia card. It must have been installed with one of the command in the Artix Wiki installation procedure possibly

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pacman -S xorg --ignore xorg-server-xdmx

or maybe the most recent pacman -S xorg-xinit

or maybe it was some lxqt stuff which brought it, because I noticed that after installing the DM my screen font in the non-graphical console has changed into some ugly wide text. And after I wake up from hibernation I can only see a black screen, can't do but power it off hard. But let's approach these side-problems in separate topics.

I'll take a look on the confs you shared and will try to set up something resembling it.

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #18 –
uninstall xf86-video-vesa, install 'xf86-video-noveau' (for NOT newest nvidia cards), or better 'nvidia' or 'nvidia-dkms'

your main problem is, that xserver not start :-)
 

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #19 –
Thank you very much for your support. So far I have found this:

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# lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF114M [GeForce GTX 675M] (rev a1)

I uninstalled the nouveau drivers because I found that the proprietary Nvidia drivers have a configuration tool themselves. After a reboot recommended in Arch wiki Xorg :0 -configure produced a fresh /var/log/Xorg.0.log where I could read:

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NVIDIA: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M GPU installed in this system is supported through the NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy drivers. [...]
[...] The 440.82 NVIDIA driver will ignore this GPU.

So I removed the nvidia drivers and installed the following

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nvidia-390xx
nvidia-390xx-settings
nvidia-390xx-utils
I avoided nvidia-390xx-dkms because I read that I sould use this only with custom linux kernel.
After another Xorg :0 -configure I read in the Xorg.0.log

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NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the system's kernel log for additional error messages and consult the NVIDIA README for details.

That was not much of a surprise because at this time I had not configured the nvidia drivers in any way. So I ran

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nvidia-xconfig --xconfig=/root/xorg.conf.new

Then I ran diff to see what changes it made. Except for changing the irrelevant indentation it removed BusID "PCI:1:0:0" in the device section. X.Org Wiki writes that this field is usually optional in single-head configurations when using the primary graphics card.

I modified and split the xorg.conf.new into sections which I placed in xorg.conf.d
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# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
10-server conf  20-nvidia.conf  30-monitor.conf  40-modules.conf

they combine to this:
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# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Manually configured"
    Screen         "Laptop Screen"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Nvidia Card"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Laptop LCD"
    VendorName     "Samsung"
    DisplaySize    381 215
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Laptop Screen"
    Device         "Nvidia Card"
    Monitor        "Laptop LCD"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes       "1920x1080"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

xinit now produces this error log
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[ 13391.789] (WW) Failed to open protocol names file lib/xorg/protocol.txt
[ 13391.790] 
X.Org X Server 1.20.8
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 13391.790] Build Operating System: Linux Artix Linux
[ 13391.790] Current Operating System: Linux lappi 5.6.3-artix1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:06:10 +0000 x86_64
[ 13391.790] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=16211fe2-0927-4853-af22-b701645183fd rw loglevel=3 random.trust_cpu=on resume=UUID=8a8c0b83-8b6f-4fea-bd4a-905e7b51ebb4 quiet
[ 13391.791] Build Date: 30 March 2020  02:12:50PM
[ 13391.791]  
[ 13391.791] Current version of pixman: 0.38.4
[ 13391.792] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 13391.792] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 13391.793] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Apr 22 06:14:00 2020
[ 13391.793] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 13391.794] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 13391.794] (==) ServerLayout "Manually configured"
[ 13391.794] (**) |-->Screen "Laptop Screen" (0)
[ 13391.794] (**) |   |-->Monitor "Laptop LCD"
[ 13391.794] (**) |   |-->Device "Nvidia Card"
[ 13391.794] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 13391.794] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 13391.794] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 13391.794] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 13391.794] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 13391.794] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[ 13391.794] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[ 13391.794] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/misc".
[ 13391.794] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13391.794] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/misc").
[ 13391.794] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" does not exist.
[ 13391.794] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13391.794] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[ 13391.794] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13391.794] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[ 13391.794] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13391.794] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi
[ 13391.794] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 13391.794] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 13391.794] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 13391.794] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 13391.794] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 13391.794] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 13391.794] 	X.Org Video Driver: 24.1
[ 13391.794] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[ 13391.794] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 13391.795] (--) using VT number 7

[ 13391.795] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
[ 13391.797] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 10de:1212:144d:c0d0 rev 161, Mem @ 0xf6000000/16777216, 0xec000000/67108864, 0xf0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 13391.797] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 13391.797] (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
[ 13391.797] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 13391.797] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 13391.798] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 13391.798] 	compiled for 1.20.8, module version = 1.0.0
[ 13391.798] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 13391.798] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 13391.798] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 13391.798] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 13391.798] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 13391.798] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 13391.798] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  390.132  Fri Nov  1 03:36:28 PDT 2019
[ 13391.798] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 13391.799] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 13391.799] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 13391.799] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 13391.800] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 13391.800] 	compiled for 1.20.8, module version = 1.0.0
[ 13391.800] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 13391.800] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 13391.800] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 13391.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[ 13391.800] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 13391.800] 	compiled for 1.20.8, module version = 1.0.0
[ 13391.800] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 13391.800] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 13391.800] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 13391.800] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 13391.804] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 13391.804] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[ 13391.804] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[ 13391.804] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 13391.804] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[ 13391.804] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[ 13391.804] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[ 13391.804] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 13391.804] (EE) 
[ 13391.808] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.


Somehow the Nvidia kernel module doesn't load. I don't know why. Is there a way to further debug this? As a workaround, I might try to uninstall the nvidia's legacy drivers and install xf86-video-nouveau instead and try with that. But before I do that, I want to use the nvidia-settings tool to find out more about the card, maybe it's missing something in my xorg.conf files

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #20 –
Here I read that it's suspicious that the glx module's vendor is X.org, rather than Nvidia.

Here and here I read that I should have nvidia listed in /dev (which I don't). I see that there is a /sbin/nvidia-modprobe which can be used to create device files and load the nvidia kernel module on behalf of the nvidia linux driver components.

Any ideas what I should try next?

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #22 –
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installation


nvidia 364.16 adds support for DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel mode setting. To enable this feature, add the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter.  I am not sure, if still need enable in kernel parameter , but try this!

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #23 –
Quote from: alium – on
where did you use that nvidia driver? did you install this?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms/

As I have written, I did not install nvidia-390xx-dkms because Arch Wiki writes that this was only relevant for custom kernels. I don't really know what custom kernels are. Do we have one? I thought it refers to the linux kernel and I think I installed the standard one when installing Artix, no?

Later today or maybe tomorrow morning I will try with the nvidia-dkms. I will uninstall nvidia drivers first.

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #24 –
nvidia-dkms adapts to all kernels, which you have installed. Artixlinux is 'custom' :-). It's the easiest way. I recommend it!
i use: virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-host-dkms rtl8821ce-dkms-git

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #25 –
Quote from: Zababa – on
As I have written, I did not install nvidia-390xx-dkms because Arch Wiki writes that this was only relevant for custom kernels. I don't really know what custom kernels are. Do we have one? I thought it refers to the linux kernel and I think I installed the standard one when installing Artix, no?
You need nvidia-390xx-dkms, nvidia-390xx-settings and nvidia-390xx-utils. Your GPU is no longer supported by either nvidia or nvidia-dkms, you need a legacy driver. Please, mark this topic as solved, once you get it up and running.

Re: Installing a Destktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #26 –
nvidia-390xx-dkms and nvidia-390xx-utils is now newly in [galaxy-gremlins]. You can install it, if you uncomments in your
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/etc/pacman.conf
 
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[galaxy-gremlins]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
and install with:
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pacman -S nvidia-390xx-dkms

Re: Installing a Desktop Environment, Display Manager

Reply #29 –
nvidia-390xx-dkms and nvidia-390xx-utils is now newly in [galaxy]