Make sure nouveau is blacklisted. I can't check right now, but I think I used "needs_root_rights = yes" to get mine working. Also make sure nouveau is not in your initramfs either. The driver will fail with newer cards. It's poison with my 880M. On February 6, 2015 1:51:11 PM EST, "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi, > >well, I'm lost totally here. >I don't know how to start my X Window system with proprietary Nvidia >driver. >I must to use it because an application needs it. > >I tried in the Xwrapper.config the 'needs_root_rights = no', >I tried to remove ~/.xinitrc to start X with defaults, >I tried the '30-nvidia.conf' with >Section "Device" > Identifier "Nvidia Card" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > Option "NoLogo" "True" >EndSection > >but just can't to start X Window system with >'startx' command. > >I have installed: >kernel version: 3.14.31-1-lts >nvidia-304xx-lts >nvidia-304xx-libgl >nvidia-304xx-utils > >I look into '~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log' >and see that that Xorg even not see the nvidia driver!? > >Xorg tries to load other modules but nvidia not, and finally gives the >following error message: >'No drivers available >Fatal server error: >no screens found(EE) > >Please, help me to solve this problem. > >-- >Regards from Pal -- Do your job. Really. Just. Do. Your. Job.
