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Hello, I'm new to Arch Linux and haven't been in the Linux scene for a while so most of what I learned have faded away.
I installed Arch Linux fine, ran pacman -Syu and pacman -S xorg fluxbox fluxconf which downloaded and installed fine. So after that I ran xorgconfig and hopefully set it up correctly. I ran startx | startfluxbox, the screen turns black then spits me out to the following...(its in the from of an image becuase I'm using Virtual PC)
Now, it says it can't laod module vga so I'm assuming I have to recompile the kernel and install that module? Its been a while since I've compiled a kernel, so a little help would be great!
Thanks.
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Hmm, been a while since I fooled with VMWare. Are you sure that's the right video module. I seem to remember having to install VMWare tools whenever I first start up a guest OS and that included video drivers. Not quite sure how it handles linux, if it just copies files over or what.
Check out http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ … #wp1127177
Maybe that will help.
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I'm not using VMware, I'm using Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004. They recently released it for free.
I wonder if running X is a problem when running it vial the Virtual PC. Is there another emulator that would work better?
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You probably forgot to install the vga driver: pacman -S xf86-video-vga
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Ok, thanks for the answers. I now get an error "Faild to load module "glx"(module does not exist)"
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pacman -S libgl-dri
will provide the glx module.
However, I don't think the vga driver supports OpenGL. But I have no experience how Virtual PC works, so there might be something that I'm missing.
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Ok thanks guys, I got it working!
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