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[DrKarl <karlmaxxx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

    I am in the process of installing Arch Linux in a Sony Vaio VPCZ13X5E.

Achieved so far:

       - Dual booting Windows 7 and Arch Linux
       - Wifi working on Arch Linux with wpa_supplicant

Now I'm trying to correctly install one of the video cards (I'll care
about video switch later).

I tried the nouveau driver but I got some problems, and decided to go
for the nvidia driver, which has better 3D performance.

I have installed SLiM Login manager and LXDE.

If I try to boot, after linux initialization text, all I get is a blank
screen.

I was able to boot to LXDE and SLiM setting nomodeset in the grub menu,
and that way I can boot to framebuffer vga=795 with runlevel 3, but If I
understood correctly, nomodeset forces to use older drivers whith
limited performance.

Tried to install nvidia driver with pacman but it couldn't download the
driver, so I downloaded and installed latest driver from Nvidia web.

modprobe -l |grep nvidia shows:

kernel/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko
kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.ko

In slim.log I can read:

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
(/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): No such device
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA:        system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

and also...

Giving up.
slim: unable to connect to X server
/usr/bin/xauth: file /var/run/slim.auth does not exist

and in Xorg.0.log I can read:

(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA:        system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) No drivers available

Any suggestions?