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Registered: 2007-03-26

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Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

I tried to install kdm with Pacman and found nothing. Where do I find this?

I'm trying to take this one step at a time. I did a very basic install of Arch 0.8, pacman -Sy, pacman -Su, pacman -S xorg kde hwd, but I don't think it all went smoothly...

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

Hello ArchPad,

kdm is provided by the package kdebase, which is included in the group kde.
So if you run 'pacman -S kde', then you are pretty sure to have kdebase and kdm installed :-)

To start kdm simply run the command (as root) :

/etc/rc.d/kdm start

I hope it helped !
Cheers,
Chicha

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

Hello,
kdm itself is located in the package called "kdebase".

The rc-scripts (/etc/rc.d/kdm) is owned by the kde-common package.

If you experience problems, we'd be thankful for a proper error description, since it's hard to help without any concrete description (what have you done from the pacman install till the point you arrived now, where you are stuck). That gives us an impression how far you got configuring xorg and your startup scripts for KDE.

Kind regards,
STi

Last edited by STiAT (2007-04-24 15:46:38)

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Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

Makes sense!

ArchPad

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Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

I ran into another problem, and rather than clogging the forum, I'll just staple the issue onto this post.

When logging into my non-root (normal) account, I receive this message:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device

I'll take the system's word for it, and assume that my speakers won't work because of some permissions issue. How do I solve this? And entering some command as superuser every time I log in won't cut it...

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

Maybe your non-root user is not in the 'audio' group ?
To make sure of this, simply run the command :

groups

It will display all the groups your current logged user is in.
To add user 'toto' in the group 'audio', simply run the following command as root :

gpasswd -a toto audio

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

I would not normally do this, but arch linux is one of those rare occasions when users are actually supposed to read the manual, documentation and wiki. Why, because this is what arch linux is all about.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … tall_Guide

I quote from the official arch install guide - FAQ;

I get access denied errors trying to play sound or read DVDs.

Add your user to the optical and audio groups.

To further simplify this;

usermod -aG audio,optical <username>

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Re: Installing KDM? Other possible xorg issues

I searched around, and have been through the Official Guide, etc. but didn't find that answer. Thanks for the links, but know that I'm not as lazy as you might believe! :^)