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This is my 2nd attempt at running Arch. First time around, Xorg and junk was over my head, so I ran away. Now I'm back with more knowledge and experience, but also with new hardware, and now it wants me to run away.
It's a Mobility Radeon HD 3870, M88 chipset. On Jaunty 64 nothing worked, since the newest drivers are for the old version of Xorg (last I checked) and Jaunty uses the newer one. On Hardy 32, I had a lot more luck. The open-source radeon (non hd) driver and the proprietary ATI driver worked, as long as I didn't mess much with it. Barely any 2D acceleration, and no 3D support, but something was there.
So, I installed the radeon open-source drivers, and the x-desktop environment (actually want GNOME, but that's easy to change, so whatever). I started X and the login screen came up. Except that I forgot to install HAL and didn't make an Xorg file with my keyboard/mouse settings. So I had to hard reboot.
I came back to it a few days later (this is a side project of mine, no biggy), and now X starts, but to a black screen. I then installed all the open source drivers, and even the proprietary ones and am just confused as to what to do. Since I come from the land of Ubuntu, so I'm still getting used to managing packages with pacman.
Things would go a LOT smoother if I could just get Mozilla running. That way I wouldn't have to keep rebooting to a different OS just to read up on what to try next before doing it. =/
Thanks in advance.
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You have more than one pc?
1) pacman -S sshd
2) Add sshd:allow to /etc/hosts.allow
3) Login with ssh from another pc to the machine with arch.
On a side note, nvidia cards constantly outperform ati cards' crappy performances.
"I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems."
~ Need moar games? [arch-games] ~ [aurcheck] AUR haz updates? ~
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No, I triple boot to Windows Vista/ Ubuntu Hardy/ Arch
This is a laptop, so I can't just switch out the cards... right? I haven't had much luck finding laptop video cards at all.
Lastly, I have no idea what SSHing into this pc would do besides let me access and modify my files. I can already do that. I want to know which files to modify and how.
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Things would go a LOT smoother if I could just get Mozilla running. That way I wouldn't have to keep rebooting to a different OS just to read up on what to try next before doing it. =/
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Lastly, I have no idea what SSHing into this pc would do besides let me access and modify my files. I can already do that. I want to know which files to modify and how.
"I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems."
~ Need moar games? [arch-games] ~ [aurcheck] AUR haz updates? ~
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Oh. Since it's a laptop, I figured it wouldn't be too much harder to just have it right next to any usable computer, but I guess I didn't make it explicit that it's a laptop.
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