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siggma

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Registered: 2009-07-08

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X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

I've tried installing Arch several times but have not been able to get X to do anything more than init and display the usual terminal box. When it does load it locks up the keyboard and the terminal is non functional.

I have had issues mounting ext3 under Vista so I don't have a log copy but the last line in the log file references UHCI and USB, then it's garbage city. I haven't see binary garbage in a log file before so I'm a bit perplexed.

System Particulars:

Gigabyte P45 DS3L
2 Gig RAM Kingston
WD 320 G AHCI BIOS (on board) SATAII
ATI X1650 256 PCIE
Normal keyboard Compaq 105 KBD (Not USB)
Kensington $9 USB mouse with ugly, stupid, green PS2 adapter (Not USB mode)

What I've tried:
Installed xorg, xf86-input-evdev, libgl, mesa, xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-radeonhd
X -configure finishes and generates a valid xorg.conf
X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf & sleep 10 & killall X returned OK at least once.
X- config /etc/X11/xorg.conf HANGS with xterm visible and apparently totally locked system. Numlock is dead and CTRL-ALT-DEL has no effect. Power button does not reset and there is no disk activity.

Last entry in Xorg.0.log indicates it was initializing UHCI when the crash occurred. There is unreadable binary garbage at the end of the log file.

X runs fine in Ubu jaunty, Mandriva, Fedora, System Rescue  CD, etc
Vista loads and runs fine (obviously as I type this)

I may have missed something in the installation instructions but I can't get Arch to boot in Virtualbox (Vbox itself hangs at udev during boot after installation) making it extremely difficult to boot, read, boot, read, boot read.
Any ideas?
-Tom

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

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Re: X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

We're not magicians, post your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Have you started hal before starting X?

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siggma

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Registered: 2009-07-08

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Re: X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

We're not magicians, post your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Have you started hal before starting X?

It says nothing about having to manually start hal in the Beginners guide when installing and testing X.
It should be started by default in a standard installation, should it not?

I'll need to reboot again and copy the files where I can get to them in Vista since ext2ifs won't mount partitions from ext4 capable kernels.

What a hassle. I hope it's worth the trouble.
-Tom

arkham

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Registered: 2008-10-26

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Re: X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

the HAL daemon

Start the hal daemon before anything related to X.Org is started:

# /etc/rc.d/hal start

Add the hal daemon to the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf to start it at every boot.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … otplugging

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siggma

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Registered: 2009-07-08

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Re: X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

If I could read it while installing rather than trying to pick a few relevant pages to print...

In any case, perhaps you are a magician. It was starting hal that solved the problem.
Thanks
-tom

arkham

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Registered: 2008-10-26

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Re: X hangs initializing UHCI X86_64 2.6-30

*disappears in an explosion*

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