Xorg not working on Arch Linux

Question

I installed Arch i686 on a VirtualBox VM (I have an nvidia GT610). I ran the following commmand as root:

pacman -S nvidia 

After installation and rebooting, I ran

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm

then

startx

I got a fatal error saying No screens found. Any help as to what should I do ?

Answer 1

I Installed Arch in virtualbox

A virtual machine running in vbox uses a emulated video card instead of your nvidia card.

Which means nvidia like driver is unnecessary.

Try X -configure first, which will generate a probed xorg config, but modern Xorg shouldn't need that at all. (If you have /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf, remove it)