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#1 2014-04-17 02:44:47

Resolution decreases/Font enlargers and GDM hangs on driver install

Hello archers, forgive my newness to ArchLinux and Linux itself but here’s my question.
I followed the beginners guide but it seems my system just refuses proprietary drivers for some reason. I can only maintain a stable DE and resolution when I install nouveau driver. I own a GTX 460m so I attempted to install nvidia-96xx-dkms. Why? I’m almost positive the nouveau video driver is impeding me from playing dota 2 as I can do this on my Windows dual boot without lag. Problem is when I rebooted from installing the drivers and gnome I am greeted with the following statements upon enabling gdm:
[ OK ] Stopped Getty on tty1.
Starting GNOME Display Manager.
Stopping User Manager for UID 0.
[ OK ] Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
[ OK ] Removed slice user-0.slice.
[ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
Starting Accounts Service.
Starting Authorization Manager
[ OK ] Started Authorization Manager
[ OK ] Started Accounts Service

————– Here I wait a minute and a half followed by this: —————————
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device sys-subsystem-net-devices-PI. device.
[ DEPEND ] Dependency failed for Automatic wireless network con. etctl profiles.
[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.
[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface.
[ OK ] Reached target Network.

This follows an infinite hang that goes nowhere. How do I fix this problem? My shell is bloated and my DE won’t load. I’ve repeated my steps about 4 times to the point i’ve written each command out on install. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#2 2014-04-17 03:32:11

Re: Resolution decreases/Font enlargers and GDM hangs on driver install

Have you tried installing the regular nvidia driver?

Also, you should use code tags when posting logs like this.

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#3 2014-04-17 04:14:41

Re: Resolution decreases/Font enlargers and GDM hangs on driver install

Will do. Ok, so I installed the nvidia driver which made me uninstall the 96xx nvidia driver. This allowed me to get into gdm without a mouse and with another hangup after trying to log in by manually pressing enter on the first user profile and entering that profile’s credentials. Plus there is still no fix to the resolution of the ctrl+alt+[F1-F6] terminals.

#4 2014-04-17 16:22:32

Re: Resolution decreases/Font enlargers and GDM hangs on driver install

I’ve realized that the problem is with the video driver for sure now after a reinstall. Whenever I install nvidia, nvidia-lts, nvidia-96xx, or nvidia96xx-kms I get similar results. I’ve also realized that nvidia-96xx drivers aren’t the ones since those are for GeForce drivers and not GeForce GTX drivers.

#5 2014-04-18 03:33:07

Re: Resolution decreases/Font enlargers and GDM hangs on driver install

To bring this thread to a close here is what I discovered. It would seem that the resolution problem I kept having with my console was NORMAL as indicated in https://wiki. archlinux. org/index. php/NV … resolution. The problem I had with the nvidia driver not giving a mouse and locking up had to do with no configuring after installing. This was quickly remedied with a simple command:

Unfortunately this stuggle was in vain as this still imposed a considerable performance hit in regular gnome activities from booting and startup into the DE to lag in hitting the windows key for arranging the open windows. The nvidia driver gave me a significant boost in rendering of dota 2 but still contained lag even in offline matches unreliant upon the network. Terribly disappointing as when I dual boot back into Windows I don’t have any type of rendering lag. Either its configured terribly wrong or linux is imposing more resources for the same gaming experience.
Needless to say I reverted back to nouveau. Hope this log will help anyone else struggling through this type of driver problem.