A Couple Of Problems After First Install

Bonner · 2009-02-01 18:01:55

Hey.

I finally got around to installing Arch (Switching from Xubuntu) and thanks to the beginners guide i've got the system up and running, but with a couple of problems i'm not sure how to fix. Firstly I installed LXDE (Which all went fine) started it up and for some reason it won't run in fullscreen; I have two black bars down either side of the screen. Secondly i'm not sure how to get XDM running. It boots up into the command line interface and them I have to run startx to start LXDE. I'd rather just have it boot into LXDE. Thirdly, for some reason Firefox seems to think it's Gran Paradiso, I changed my about:config file for it, but to no avail. Unfortunately I couldn't find any answers through searching, so maybe i'll get something here.

Many thanks in advance

Procyon · 2009-02-01 18:10:43

1. Paste your Xorg.conf

2. XDM in Arch wiki

3. firebrand

Bonner · 2009-02-01 18:21:45

Procyon wrote:

1. Paste your Xorg.conf
2. XDM in Arch wiki
3. firebrand

Xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
Option "Xkblayout" "gb"
Option "Xkbvariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
Endsection

And cheers for the page on the DM, i'll go sort that now.

Bonner · 2009-02-01 18:38:47

Update: I have SLiM up and running now, thanks again for that.

Procyon · 2009-02-01 18:47:18

1. Xorg.conf looks fine I think... I don't know anything about LXDE so I have no idea.

Bonner · 2009-02-01 18:53:21

Procyon wrote:

1. Xorg.conf looks fine I think... I don't know anything about LXDE so I have no idea.

Damn, I was hoping there was an easy solution, like i'd misconfigured something.

Oh well, thanks anyway.

fogobogo · 2009-02-01 20:11:25

If you have a widescreen TFT I wouldnt wonder about the black bars left and right. after all this:

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

just cannot fit for a widescreen

Bonner · 2009-02-01 21:09:49

fogobogo wrote:

If you have a widescreen TFT I wouldnt wonder about the black bars left and right. after all this:
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
just cannot fit for a widescreen

Well it's a laptop screen (HP 6720s) and the resolution is 1024x768 so I doubt it's anything to do with that. Another thing is that the colours don't seem very bright, I can't describe it that well really. The only thing similar that comes to mind is safe mode on a Windows system.

fogobogo · 2009-02-02 09:26:56

I just noticed you use the Vesa driver. This is obviously a bit suboptimal considering your GPU. I would propose to load the right driver first and see what problems come up then.

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