Arch Linux

rasnik

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Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 8

help with lenovo t61 and X

hello.  new to arch linux.  wanted something that works acceptably easily and ends up looking clean and working reliably.  compared to gentoo, for example, the arch install started out very well on my new machine, a lenovo t61 laptop w/14" screen and nvidia graphics.  (by "well" i mean i didn't give up in 5 minutes because of problems.)  then the networking (eth0) refused to work.  that turned out to be fairly easy to fix - in fact i think the answer came from this forum somewhere.  after that i started installing additional packages via pacman, mostly for X.  this went well, but then started unraveling with the creation of the X conf file.  note here that the normally clear and well organized set of arch directions falls apart -- there are several nebulous sets of information on the web, suggestions which sort of disagree with each other, etc.  in the end i managed to guess at conf file contents until x windows appeared, but without using the nvidia drivers, at low resolution (and very fuzzy)...

1) does anyone know of a concise procedure that actually works to get X going on a new lenovo T61 with nvidia and the 14" wide screen?  what resolution can i actually expect to get?

2) does the order in which i fetch packages via pacman matter at all?  if so, what order works?  (I assume once networking and X are up and running properly I can then go and add things pretty much as I please(?)).

thanks,
david

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: help with lenovo t61 and X

1, I'm sorry, but I can't answer with a set of instructions, but I can tell you that all flat panels are designed to run at an explicit set resolution (their "native" resolution), and they don't look good at anything else, so you can expect to get whatever the panel's native resolution is.

2, No. You can install stuff in any order you please; in the case of package A depending on package B, pacman will automatically figure this out and install package B first for you, then package A. It's called dependency tracking

You might like to post your xorg.conf so that more knowledgeable users can give you tips, hints and ideas to get your system working.

-dav7

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