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Cew27

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Registered: 2008-06-16

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Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

hey i have installed arch and followed a tutorial on softpedia however it was for an older version that came bundled with the xserver software. i have it installed on my laptop with 1 gig of ram and an intel 945 integrated craphics chipset. i asked for help on the irc channel for 10 minutes but no one replied, i can connect via ethernet if needs be, at the moment i am stranded at root terminal. thanks alot

ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

hey i have installed arch and followed a tutorial on softpedia however it was for an older version that came bundled with the xserver software. i have it installed on my laptop with 1 gig of ram and an intel 945 integrated craphics chipset. i asked for help on the irc channel for 10 minutes but no one replied, i can connect via ethernet if needs be, at the moment i am stranded at root terminal. thanks alot

You should:

pacman -S xorg

Assuming you have appropriate network connectivity to the Internet from this machine.  I will henceforth point you here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

Good luck,

-- Thomas Adam

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

not in sync db or something along those lines?

ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

not in sync db or something along those lines?

Well, yes -- by all means run:

pacman -Syu

Is this not in your copy of the installation guide?

-- Thomas Adam

Sp4rkR4t

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From: Southampton

Registered: 2008-05-06

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

It's not just X you will need to set up so try following the beginners guide, that's what it's there for after all.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

hmm when i ping -c 3 google i get unknow hostname but when i ping 192.168.0.1 (router) i get packet flow do i need to configure something

iBertus

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

It sounds like your network isn't configured properly. Did you make the necessary changes to rc.conf during the install proccess? Could you post the output of ifconfig?

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

if config pics up eth0 as ethernet i didnt change rc.conf as the poor tut i was using told me not to, i will have a gander now i did however do route default gw 192.168.0.1 is this ok?

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

ok here are some of the text in my rc.conf

HOSTNAME="myhost"
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.225"
interfaces =(eth0)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

this doesnt mean much to me but maybe you can help me

Last edited by Cew27 (2008-06-16 18:40:30)

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

If you don't have a static IP setup then you probably want to change
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.225"
to be
eth0="dhcp"

Alternatively if you do have a static IP setup for your computer then you need to put that information into the eth0 variable.

Then restart the network service with

/etc/rc.d/network restart

and you *should* be connected.

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

ok that worked to an extent along with me removeing the ! from (!gateway) now i can ping websites such as google and archlinux.com but still cannot find xorg in appdb

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

w0000t working !!!!!!! had to -Syu now what do i install to get a gui?
thanks alot people !

Misfit138

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

I recommend you look at the Beginners Guide.

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Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

found it on the begginers guide (missed it forst time)
thanks alot!

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

well that took an age, now i have efce install but i still need a hand, i have an intel 3945abf rev2 wireless card, i tried installing the drivers as reccomended in the wiki, it is in mod autoload in etc/rc.conf
but i cant seem to get it to connect, i have ethernet and whenever i start xfce4 i get a message saying it cant find a webadress at my domain or something and that i can try fix the problem, i can acces the net using ethernet but i cant find the "wireless_tools" i install earlier to connect to my network. ok so once wireless is running i will then need to sort my next problem which is booting into an xfce login screen, i installed xdm and added it to my boot daemons but it doesnt run on boot and when i manually fun xdm i get a horrid xorg login screen that wont even let me login
many thanks and once i get this up and running i will sureley donate to arch linux

loyx

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

for your wireless card, if you are unable to find native wireless drivers try ndiswrapper, which lets you use windows wireless drivers

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

i installed slim so thats all ok at boot but now i just need wireless sorting, i have a driver installed but i still cant see anything in ifconfig

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

Try iwconfig, like ifconfig, but for wireless. And http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless

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Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

iwconfig returns
ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Acess Point: Not-Assotiated
Tx-Power=0 dbm
retry min limit: 7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
encryption key = off
link quality = 0 signal level = 0 noise level = 0
rxinvalid nwid:0 rx invalid crypt: 0 and all the other options are 0 also
this isnt sytax perfect

Garns

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

Try scanning. As root:

iwlist scan

If that works, try to set up your network using netcfg2

Cew27

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Re: Please help me with arch setup all i need is gui!

wlan0 network down