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Frefreak

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Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 24

[SOLVED]Screen displays improperly

Hello everyone, I've just installed arch according to the wiki's beginner's guide. After installed Xorg(xorg-server, xorg-utils and xorg-xinit) and video driver using pacman I also installed xfce and xfce-goodies package. The problem is that after I "startxfce4" the GUI comes out but display improperly. There is a black bar in the bottom and the whole GUI seems moved up. I don't know how to describe it precisely so I put a image below:

http://i.imgur.com/bGZ9wT7.jpg?1

I remembered when I test X using "startx" before install xfce4, there was also a similar black bar over there. So I think the problem is with xorg but I don't know how to fix this. I tried to search but didn't find a solution.
I tried to use

# Xorg :0 -configure

  and

nvidia-xconfig

to generate a config file, but either causes the "startxfce4" failed.

lspci | grep -i vga

output(I post this in ubuntu):

http://i.imgur.com/1PKB2FN.jpg

I have two graphics cards on my laptop, and the video driver I installed is vesa and nvidia. Let me know if you need any further info, thanks.

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Last edited by Frefreak (2014-01-02 06:57:53)

Andreaskem

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Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED]Screen displays improperly

You should post your X11 log file.

Frefreak

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Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED]Screen displays improperly

Thanks for the reply. It turned out that I installed the wrong driver for my graphic card. After installing the xf86-video-intel driver everything so far works just fine. In the future I might install bumblebee or something else to manage them.