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I have successfully installed Arch several times now. Every time I tested X, when i pressed ctrl-alt-backspace, it quit but my screen just displayed weird vertical, colored lines on a white background. I decided to just reinstall. Every time the Beginners Guide said to test X, I did so, but with the same error and would reinstall, skipping that test next time. I eventually got to the point where I knew all my settings worked with X and installed X and Gnome the next reinstall. I started Gnome, used it, everything was great, but when I restarted, the boot process ended with these two lines: "AcpI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE". On my install attempts where X didn't quit properly, I rebooted and got the same error. I thought I might be able to go through the entire Gnome installation and everything and have it work, but it didn't. Can anyone tell me how to fix it? Could it have to do with my hardware or drivers? I know I've had trouble at times with them in other Linux distros. I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4807 with an ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card. During install, I installed the open source ATI driver.
Last edited by hank863 (2008-08-24 01:24:42)
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Did you install the ATI driver following this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI I didnt have the error that you are referring too, but I installed a driver other than that for my ati card, and I was getting some weird glitches. So unless you are sold on the open source driver, you may want to give that one a try...Or I could be horribly wrong.
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Thank You. I just did 'pacman -S x86-video-ati' as the beginners guide said for the open source. I am open to trying the proprietary. I will wait to see if there is a solution that doesn't require reinstalling everything. My hopes are not high, but I'll give it some time.
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I just reinstalled without installing an ati driver and X actually worked better. I will eventually install the driver. Everything was going great until I rebooted. I got the same error as listed above. So, it's not my graphics driver.
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I got it working! It was an update. I reinstalled Arch without updating anything but pacman. I am afraid to update now, though. Can anyone tell me what I should do?
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wait, so you reinstalled Arch, now it works without updating the system? Eventually you will have to update your system.
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I know and that's why I'm curious if anyone knows which update it is or why the error is occuring.
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I fixed it!!! For anyone else that needs this info. I just added 'acpi=off noacpi' without quotes to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst!
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