luebking wrote:Is your X server running on display ":1"? (X must be running, "ps ax | grep X")
Try "DISPLAY=:n xrandr -q" and increase "n" until it stops complaining about no display.

Sorry, the complete call would then be "xrandr --output DFP-1 --mode 1024x768"

i see that there is a process running but I am not sure if it is display1 or not. I am using ctl+alt+ F2. for the console (ctl+alt+f1 is still the scrolling screen)


sorry for the screen shot but here is the output

http://s1056.photobucket.com/user/everydaydiesel2/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151021_100757_zpsb2aaptni.jpg.html


one other difference is that with centos i was using the nvidia drivers but with this installation i installed nvidia with pacman -S nvidia

I finally figured this out and while it is not the best solution it does work.

First I removed pacman -R nvidia

I added "blacklist nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf

rebooted

then used wget to download the lastest nvidia drivers from their website
chmod +x FILENAME

then installed it


Now it works like a charm. Thanks for all your help!

> I added "blacklist nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf
Ahh, you allow multiple framebuffer access. Not good.
Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR ... ramebuffer

luebking wrote:> I added "blacklist nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf
Ahh, you allow multiple framebuffer access. Not good.
Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR ... ramebuffer

Should I disable the framebuffer. I am not sure how else to get this machine working. What is wrong with having multiple frambuffer access?

The nvidia driver doesn't support kms and "prefers" exclusive access on the framebuffer (notably since the archlinux package already contains a modprobe role to blacklist nouveau)
Because your VT1 screenshots looked like VGA, I had assumed you had configured that anyway.
(If you had, it'll rather be simply a bug in the driver - but arch has 355.11, being the latest driver version unless you chose a beta)

Not allowing nouveau to be loaded is mandatory, getting rid of grub caused framebuffer changes is a good idea.