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Old 03-13-2016, 03:10 PM   #16
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When I type that I get acces denied even tho I'm on root
 
Old 03-13-2016, 04:36 PM   #17
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I'm hopeless

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Old 03-13-2016, 04:41 PM   #18
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What do you type? You probably are trying to execute the log file, but it is not executable, so you get the error. You need to use a pager or editor to view/edit text files. For instance, to determine what type of file you are dealing with:
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 ~ $ file /var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: ASCII text
Now you know it is a text file, you do not want to edit it, so you use a pager to view it:
Code:
~ $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
 
Old 03-14-2016, 04:13 AM   #19
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Okay I got some text now. What is the thing I'm looking from this file? Also do you have any idea how to scroll up in this mode since arrow keys doesn't work?
 
Old 03-14-2016, 04:18 AM   #20
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I'm hopeless

Can you just try login to a shell and plainly issue
Code:
gdm <Enter>
or 
sudo gdm <Enter>
just to find out what is happening behind. After that, if no window session is achieved try post to us the output of
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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Hope this helps.

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Old 03-14-2016, 07:09 AM   #21
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You can pastebin the whole log so everybody can see it.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...e-bin-services
 
Old 03-14-2016, 07:45 AM   #22
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I don't know if it will work even if you switch modules and config. The libGL among other things is replaced on nVidia install, so the nouveau driver may not work, period. In the future, I would recommend never trying to go back to nouveau from nVidia. You'll want to stick with one or the other, and if you need to see differences, you should make two installs side-by-side with which to test.
 
Old 03-14-2016, 09:11 AM   #23
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Actually it is possible if you know what needs to be done.

For nouveau enable KMS in kernel, no xorg.conf needed.
For nvidia disable KMS on kernel, a four-line xorg.conf is needed to load the driver.
For vesa KMS shouldn't matter, Xorg should probe it and load it if it is the only driver available, to force loading VESA use a four-line xorg.conf.
 
Old 03-14-2016, 10:45 AM   #24
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I tried command "gdm" and got that it is not downloaded, shoul. I install it? I also did the "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grepp EE" command and got this as an output: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 24.405] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 24.573] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 25.594] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, O)
 
Old 03-14-2016, 10:47 AM   #25
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I'm guessing that my current video card does not support xorg video driver at all
 
Old 03-14-2016, 11:09 AM   #26
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Noobtopro,

all video cards work with Xorg VESA driver. You will not get hardware acceleration and the max resolution is rather low.

Open source Xorg driver for nVidia is called nouveau, developers have done great job recently, I'm using it for older nVidia cards and can recommend it.

Closed source nvidia driver is obviously not provided by Xorg, thus it needs to be loaded thru xorg.conf. The module has to be built for your running kernel, otherwise the driver will not load. You can see it in your dmesg, when not loaded the error message in dmesg will give you hint how to fix it. In most cases it is because some framebuffer driver already grabbed the card and nvidia driver won't find the hardware.
 
Old 03-14-2016, 11:42 AM   #27
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Ok thanks. I got hell a lot of text and I'm not sure what kind of error I'm looking for but here are few I found that might be usefull: "lp: driver loaded but no devices found"
And "init: nvidia-prime main process (1084) terminated with status 127"
Also you said something about the resolution so is it possible that the fact
 
Old 03-14-2016, 11:44 AM   #28
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That the pc is trying to boot at full hd (1964:1024) makes the driver unusable
 
Old 03-14-2016, 11:49 AM   #29
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lp driver is irrelevant, it is for parallel port.

I have to say your posts are not very useful, too little information. Can you please use one of pastebin utilities I linked for you in post #21 and put your dmesg and Xorg log into pastebin?
 
Old 03-14-2016, 12:10 PM   #30
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Sure. (Less /var/log/Xorg.0.log) :http://termbin.com/gtf3 and (dmesg):http://termbin.com/y9ay
 
  


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