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fixel

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Registered: 2009-03-27

Posts: 19

[SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

Hey Guys I'm having difficulties installing on my lappy. This is basically what I did:

Installed using all the packages etc. and after the install I rebooted was presented with a bash. This is what I did:

pacman -S xfce4
pacman -S esd
pacman -S nvidia
pacman -S xorg
nvidia-xconfig

But when I run startxfce4 it gives me a blank (black) screen. Seriously have no clue what I should do.

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
           Identifier           "Layout0"
           Screen        0    "Screen0" 0 0
           InputDevice      "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
           InputDevice      "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
           Load           "dbe"
           Load           "extmod"
           Load           "type1"
           Load           "freetype"
           Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
           # generated from default
           Identifier           "Mouse0"
           Driver           "mouse"
           Optiont           "Protocol" "auto"
           Option           "Device" "/dev/psaux"
           Option           "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
           Option           "ZAxisMapping"  "4  5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
           # generated from default
           Identifier           "Keyboard0"
           Driver           "kdb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
           Identifier           "Monitor0"
           VendorName           "Unknown"
           ModelName           "Unknown"
           HorizSync           28.0 - 33.0
           VertRefresh           43.0 - 72.0
           Option           "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
           Identifier           "Device0"
           Driver           "nvidia"
           VendorName           "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
           Identifier           "Screen0"
           Device           "Device0"
           Monitor           "Monitor0"
           DefaultDepth           24
           Subsection           "Display"
                      Depth           24
           EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by fixel (2009-03-27 11:57:37)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

Go back to the console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 -- if you booted from vc 1, and see if there are any errors.

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fixel

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Registered: 2009-03-27

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

Alrigth, did the beginner's guide completely by the book this time. Didn't skip anything.:D

I can now start an xserver session with an xterm console. But I can't get my keyboard/mouse/touchpad to work at all. (I.e. I can't get back to VC1)

My mouse is a Logitech MX518.

Any ideas?

Last edited by fixel (2009-03-27 10:25:03)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

add hal to DAEMONS list

Last edited by wonder (2009-03-27 10:26:21)

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fixel

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Registered: 2009-03-27

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

I added hal and fam to my rc.conf.

I can now get into xfce. But mouse/keyboard/touchpad still don't work. Any output you need that might help?

EDIT: Current xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Thu Feb  5 00:08:50 PST 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option       "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option       "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    Option       "XkbLayout"    "se"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option       "NoLogo" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by fixel (2009-03-27 11:40:55)

fixel

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Registered: 2009-03-27

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED]Problems installing Arch 64 on Dell M1530

Found what was wrong, silly me. I did the i8042.nomux=1 touchpad fix and voila; everything works. Now I just have to find out why my right click menu isn't showing JUST the applications but also showing the "open in new window, create launcher, create url, open terminal here" ... anyone for an easy way to get rid of them? Otherwise I'm sure I'll find my way.