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I've been an Ubuntu user for a while, and recently decided to try some other distros, including gentoo, suse, and slack(none of which suited me) so I decided to try Arch because I've heard good things.
Installation went without a problem, and after rebooting I installed kde, xorg, and hwd, ran xorgconfig, hwd -x, and attempted to startx.
First problem was the module for my Intel 82810 Graphics card was not found:
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available
So I changed my Device setting to generic vesa, attempted to startx again, and then the error was that xterm, xclock, and twm commands were not found in .xinitrc, so I installed xterm via pacman, "startx" , and no errors at all, just a blank screen in tty7. I really want to try Arch, but I cannot figure out where I went wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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did you change the .xinitrc??
You have to mask wmaker
# exec wmaker
and unmask startkde
# exec startkde
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Sorry do not put # before exec startkde
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First problem was the module for my Intel 82810 Graphics card was not found:
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available
Did you install the drivers for your card? For intel you need
pacman -S xf86-video-i810
Lots of xorg stuff is covered in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg7
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did you change the .xinitrc??
You have to mask wmaker
# exec wmaker
and unmask startkde
# exec startkde
Sorry, I forgot to mention that--I did comment out 'exec wmaker' and uncommented 'startkde' before changing drivers.
Did you install the drivers for your card? For intel you need
pacman -S xf86-video-i810
I wasn't aware of that driver, I'll give it a try.
Thanks to both...
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The xf86-video-i810 package did the trick, I just installed it and then ran xorgconfig again and voila!, kde started right up. I think the other errors were probably caused by my tinkering with the xorg.conf and .xinitrc files.
Thanks again for the help.
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