First of all, I'm sorry if the general discussion list isn't for questions like this. I wasn't sure how to figure out what's appropriate. Per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154496, I've had a real ordeal trying to get video working on Arch on a repurposed late 2010 Macbook Air. I've never had issues like this with video / X in Arch before. I'm wondering if anyone can give me a push in the right direction to at least diagnose this problem. It's getting pretty hard to work without a browser! $ lspci | grep VGA 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] (rev a2) Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: - all the proprietary drivers listed on the nvidia page on the Arch wiki; each of them either wouldn't load X or showed a blank screen; ctrl-alt-fN didn't work and I had to do a hard reboot - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. - nouveau with mesa-git - as above - nouveau with mesa-full - above I've also tried BIOS compatibility mode, but I wasn't able to get my drives to mount. At any rate, it was very slow to boot, so I really want to stick with the EFI + GRUB2 setup. My Xorg.0.log when loading the proprietary driver, which just shows a black screen: http://pastie.org/5556341 My Xorg.0.log when loading nouveau, which has strange artifacts, incomplete rendering of windows, and soon locks up: http://codepad.org/QFdP9Fax I have no .xinitrc file. For nouveau, I have the default X config. For the proprietary drivers, I can nvidia-xconfig. I've been trying everything both as a normal user and as root. Video was working fine under OSX the day before I installed Arch so I don't think it's the hardware. I'm at a loss here and would appreciate any advice. Thanks, Daniel
