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tkbx

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] startx causes black screen?

I've installed Arch literally hundreds of times in Virtualbox, but this is my first time trying on a physical machine. I installed xf86-video-vesa and ran startx, and I got a black screen. It didn't quit back to the TTY, and I can't even switch to another TTY to kill it, I have to keep hard rebooting. I don't have a .xinitrc in my home directory. /etc/X11 contains twn, xinit, and xorg.conf.d.

I have an Intel HD 4000. What could be going wrong?

EDIT: I had read about Intel graphics being "plug-and-play", and I didn't realize I still had to install xf86-video-intel. This fixed it

Last edited by tkbx (2013-10-10 01:29:24)