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maxarch

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 4

[solved] X crashes when using awesome but works with openbox

Hi,

I wanted to try out awesome on my laptop for some time and am a regular user of openbox. I just changed the .xinitrc so as to load awesome instead of openbox, but now I get the usual Nvidia driver screen and then X crashes to console with error:

preinit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

But openbox works fine! What could be the issue here? Is awesome trying to load some of its own mouse settings? (Heard something like this happens with GNOME)

Thank you.

Edit: Solved by just reinstalling awesome.

Last edited by maxarch (2010-11-08 19:22:55)

maxarch

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] X crashes when using awesome but works with openbox

Edit:

Well turns out, the synaptics error pops out when running openbox too. I Ctrl+Atl+F1ed, and there is was again, but still openbox starts and works fine! My touchpad works fine, with scrolling and all that.

How do I get awesome to run?

EDIT:

Turns out the Synaptics driver issue was totally irrelevant. I sorted that out (double loading of drivers) by reading https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=835318

But awesome does not start. I get that nvidia screen and then get thrown back at the console, with no errors or anything!

Last edited by maxarch (2010-11-08 19:08:20)