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aku

Member

From: Greendale, Finland

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 24

Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

Hi! I'm new on this forum, and new to Arch. I've been reading good stuff about Arch and decided to give it a spin. Unfortunately, even with my basic Linux skills I cannot get KDE or Gnome to run.
I set up the installation with 'base'
after finishing setup, I did a 'pacman -Syu'.
What do I need to do (step by step) from here to install KDE and X.org ?
I tried installing xorg and kde packages with 'pacman -S kde' and 'pacman -S xorg' but still I can't get it to work. It keeps complaining about 'missing module nv' and something else..
I would like to get this distro working, as I've tried everything else, and this is my last chance for Linux, before I give up and buy a Mac :shock: . Please help..! I've read the wiki install guide, but, as English isn't my native language (it's Finnish) I think I can't understand everything.
So, what packages I need to install, what config files I need to modify to install and run KDE in Arch ?

jnengland77

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From: Black Hills, USA

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 111

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

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after finishing setup, I did a 'pacman -Syu'.
What do I need to do (step by step) from here to install KDE and X.org ?
I tried installing xorg and kde packages with 'pacman -S kde' and 'pacman -S xorg' but still I can't get it to work. It keeps complaining about 'missing module nv' and something else..
...

You haven't installed all of the xorg packages.  Pacman -Sy xorg-video-drivers xorg-input-drivers  should help solve the module nv.  I assume you have ran xorgconfig, or using hwd  or X -configure(any will work)?

What video card do you have?  I assume nvidia if so please try install the officle nvidia driver by pacman -Sy nvidia.  Then running nvidia-xconfig.

~jnengland77

scarney

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From: Wisconsin, US

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 173

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

youll need to pacman -S xorg kdebase nvidia these items.

then what i did was pacman -S hwd (follow the steps). then hwd -xa. this will create an xorg.conf.

after the xorg.conf is created, i run nvidia-xconfig. then! i edit the xorg.conf to  my liking.

then add 'hal kdm' in this order, to the end of your daemons line in /etc/rc.conf

that should get ya up and running.

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

have you seen this
also go here
to keep from having to bounce back & forth from another os to get this info do a pacman -S lynx  once you got lynx  you can browse the net from command line
via  "lynx archlinux.org" or what ever url you want  its not pretty but it works

aku

Member

From: Greendale, Finland

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 24

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

A big thank you to scarney!
I got it working, and now I am writing this from Arch Linux and KDE3.5.5 !

One more question>
my KDM and KDE fonts are way too wide.. what do I do ?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

try adjusting your resoultion in xorg.conf. Something like

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection

within your Screen section.

aku

Member

From: Greendale, Finland

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 24

Re: Arch installation help needed + now some WM help ?..

ok.. I got it working..
I installed the full KDE package with 'pacman -S kde'
and it seems to work..?

Thank you all for the answers !