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Feeelix

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Registered: 2009-05-14

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Eee 701 - cant run LXDE

Hello everyone, new here, havin' bit trouble.. Asus EeePc 701 4gsurf

Installed Arch from FTP-USB img, followed the wiki guide, but havin problem,

1. when I type startx I get basic xorg interface but mouse or anything doesnt work

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2. when i type startlxde i get "cannot open /proc/acpi/asus/brn"

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I have installed in this order:

pacman -Sy xorg

pacman -Sy lxde gamin

pacman -Sy xf86-video-intel

xf86-input-synaptics

pacman -Sy xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse

***Then downloaded and installed

pacman -U acpi-eee-10.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

***it needed another file some acpid so pacmaned -Sy that file also..

***after that it said:

To use this package, you will hae to disable /etc/acpi/events/anything

The easiest way to do this is to run the following command:
sed s/handler/handler-disabled/ -i /etc/acpi/events/anything

see /etc/acpi/eee.conf for configuration options.

you should alos add 'eee' rc-script in to daemons-array in /etc/rc.conf

so i typed "s/handler/handler-disabled/ -i /etc/acpi/events/anything"

and added "acpid" in daemons( not sure here because its says ad eee rc script above.. i added acpid)

Can anyone help me... im stuck here..

Thank you in advance

Last edited by Feeelix (2009-05-14 13:59:23)

MattSmith

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 108

Re: [SOLVED] Eee 701 - cant run LXDE

Hmm this is a shot in the dark, on my end, but do you really the official eee acpi package? I am using arch on a lenovo y510, and I didn't do anything special and everything is working fine including suspend to disk and ram, throttling, ect. Albeit I am not running lxde and I do not know if there are special requirements for eee pc's.

Another thought here is do you have the xinitrc file set up correctly? Mine looks like (u'll want to add ur wm and comment out mine ):

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec icewm
# exec openbox
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox
# exec ratpoison
# exec dwm
#exec wmii
#exec openbox-kde-session
# exec awesome
until wmii; do
      true
done
# ... or any other WM of your choosing ...

just make sure it's in your home directory, and it's executable (chmod +x)
then type xinit instead of startx (although I'm sure they execute the same script)

If you've already done this, since I don't have great enough technical skills, my only other suggestion would be to install a really light weight window manager like openbox or wmii!! That way if openbox or wmii work, you know it's lxde, and if they don't at least you know it's not lxde.

sorry I can't be more help

Last edited by MattSmith (2009-05-14 10:11:20)

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Feeelix

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Registered: 2009-05-14

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Eee 701 - cant run LXDE

Just had to add:

exec startlxde

to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

everything works now

Last edited by Feeelix (2009-05-14 14:16:50)

MattSmith

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 108

Re: [SOLVED] Eee 701 - cant run LXDE

woot ta that then

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