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whiteninja

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Registered: 2011-11-19

Posts: 1

Getting startx to work

Alright so far, I followed the tutorial on installing Linux on a variety of sources, wiki and youtube. I am testing Arch Linux x64 on VirtualBox. So far, I downloaded the virtualbox packages, updated my mirrorlists and downloaded gnome properly. I still get this error and I do not know why. Is there a line of xorg that I am supposed to install specifically? I don't see an attach option so I'm going to type out the code.

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log",
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) VirtualBox USB Tablet: failed to initialize for relative axes.
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 56: exec: xterm: not found
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down .error setting MTRR (base = 0xe0000000, 0x00c00000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

The errors should go away when i reinstall virtualbox package?
I typed in sudo pacman -S virtualbox already, please help!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Getting startx to work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125248

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: Getting startx to work

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 56: exec: xterm: not found

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Testing_X

Last edited by jasonwryan (2011-11-20 01:55:51)

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Nesrail

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Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 51

Re: Getting startx to work

I always install these: xorg xorg-utils xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm xorg-server xorg-server-utils.
It works for me.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Getting startx to work

I always install these: xorg xorg-utils xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm xorg-server xorg-server-utils.
It works for me.

Please tell me why do you think installing the whole xorg group is a good idea.

Nesrail

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Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 51

Re: Getting startx to work

hey I'm a newbie, don't listen to me . I had the same problem. Couldn't get startx to work and some guy told me I could install all of those. It worked so I just keep on doing it