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dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: Xorg 7.3 Startup Problem

Well, I was inspired by dunc, so all he greets should go to him

And I still haven't tried it myself!

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Theoden

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Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 240

Re: Xorg 7.3 Startup Problem

Well, I was inspired by dunc, so all he greets should go to him

And I still haven't tried it myself!

dunc:

Thanks for the info - now tjach, go try it.  It's amazing how a fresh xorg.conf turned it right around!

Best regards,

Theoden 

Last edited by Theoden (2007-11-14 21:15:42)

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dunc

Member

From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: Xorg 7.3 Startup Problem

Well, I was inspired by dunc, so all he greets should go to him

And I still haven't tried it myself!

dunc:

Thanks for the info - now tjach, go try it.  It's amazing how a fresh xorg.conf turned it right around!

Wow. I tried it on a separate install I keep for exactly this purpose - trying out dodgy stuff I'm worried might break my system - and hey presto, it works! DRI, the composite extension and everything, without having to tell it. The only thing is it defaults to a US keyboard layout, and the buttons on my mouse (which is always a problem: 4 buttons, X sees them as 1,2,3, and 9 ) are wrong, so I'll have to make up a proper xorg.config, but at least it isn't killing my system any more.

Now to do it on my real Arch partition, and take out all those IgnorePkgs from pacman.conf...

Last edited by dunc (2007-11-16 22:44:00)

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eNTi

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 109

Re: Xorg 7.3 Startup Problem

i don't have an ati, but a nvidia gforce 7300go and "about" the same problem. i can start up X though. kdm is running fine, but when i try to log in the whole machine just stops.