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Hello everyone, it's me again. When I start Xorg, I get a black screen. When I type startx into the prompt, it says "command not found". When I try to do Xorg -configure, it gives me "Error: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices". Since the output of lspci gives me "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)" for "VGA compatible controller", I did pacman -S xf86-video-intel. I am still getting nothing. What am I doing wrong?
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How did you install X? Do you have a ~/.xinitrc or are you testing with TWM? If the latter, is TWM installed? What's in the xorg logs?
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How did you install X? Do you have a ~/.xinitrc or are you testing with TWM? If the latter, is TWM installed? What's in the xorg logs?
I installed X with pacman -S xorg xorg-drivers. No, I don't have a ~/.xinitrc file.
This is Xorg.0.log:
http://pastebin.com/JFQe7xq0
This is the output of Xorg -configure. This output was sent to stderr.
http://pastebin.com/EBXgmgzx
I should mention that the vga=773 kernel option I added was an attempt to fix it. Any noticeable change the option did was reset within seconds after booting.
Last edited by Babkock (2012-04-24 02:01:58)
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no I do not have an .xinitrc file
The black screen is x running properly. Without a .xinitrc file, when x starts nothing else is started to it is just a black screen. In order to start a window manager like twm and try it just
pacman -S twm
and then put
exec twm
in your ~/.xinitrc file and start x. This is all on the beginners guide of the wiki.
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What am I doing wrong?
Not reading the Xorg wiki page for starters. Follow the instructions there to install (and configure) X correctly and take it from there.
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Thanks for the help everyone. Please forgive my impatience.
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pacman -S twm
Nitpick: it's xorg-twm .
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