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Penguin Guy

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

PROBLEM #1: No signal sent to screen when I run startx, tried customizing xorg and stuff - no difference, spec's and files below.
SOLUTION: Install the driver.

PROBLEM #2: Mouse and keyboard don't work.
SOLUTION: Sorry for my stupid mistake - I did this while I was fixing problem #1 and forgot about it

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
#DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal fam gdm)

Last edited by Penguin Guy (2009-05-23 14:39:50)

skualito

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Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 203

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

Try

pacman -Sy xf86-video-intel

and then, if you want to use hotplugging, make sure hal is started before X and

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

, it should pick the intel driver.
Hope it helps

BTW, have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … _xorg.conf and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … server_1.5

Last edited by skualito (2009-05-21 18:58:22)

Penguin Guy

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

Thanks; presumably this means that vesa is incompatible with my monitor? Anyway I will try that now and post back the results.
EDIT: Well; good news and bad news - X is running great but my keyboard and mouse aren't working, I'll try and fix this myself but if anyone thinks they have a solution please don't hesitate to post here.

Last edited by Penguin Guy (2009-05-22 15:37:30)

jmdennis

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Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 61

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

Your problem may not be the mouse and keyboard but that they are very slow.  Since upgrading xorg-server to 1.6.1 I get my keyboard being very slow.  If I hit the num lock key it takes a very long time to even show up.  The mouse will move but is very slow as well.  I have not found a fix for this yet and it makes using the system impossible.  I have seen to downgrade the version but I can not do this since I did a clean after the install.

Penguin Guy

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

That may be the problem with you - but my mouse and keyboard don't work at all. The screen is not frozen because the clock works. Still working on a solution but thanks for the reply anyway.

whordijk

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 147

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Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

Have you started HAL?

# /etc/rc.d/hal start

Make sure you add it to the daemon array in your rc.conf

pnoom

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

I had the same problem, and solved it today (after many many hours of struggling) by installing xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard - and this only works after putting Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" in the ServerLayout Section.

arnuld

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2005-12-19

Posts: 219

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Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

That may be the problem with you - but my mouse and keyboard don't work at all. The screen is not frozen because the clock works. Still working on a solution but thanks for the reply anyway.

I have *exactly* same problem. And yes, only on my new installation

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arnuld

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Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

and this only works after putting Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" in the ServerLayout Section.

Parse error at Line 6, in ServerLayout section:

  "AllowEmptyInput" is not a valid keyword for this section 

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pnoom

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

Must be a typo, here's my ServerLayout section:

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

arnuld

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2005-12-19

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Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

From man xorg.conf, AllowEmptyInput should be in ServerFlags and yes now it runs fine without input hotplugging

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sfauzia

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] X - Blank Screen

I'm having what appears to be a similar problem... but there's nothing wrong with my screen refresh rate (my dwm bar is showing the changing time and seconds just fine), I have xf86-video-intel installed, I'm not using HAL because I'm using xorg-server-antidesktop (from the AUR), and my mouse works perfectly. The problem is solely with my keyboard. I've posted my xorg.conf and other pertinent information in my other forum post.