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ecion

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 11

Arch on EEE PC 900

Hello all. I'm a newbie to Arch. Used Ubuntu and its variants for a while now, and fancied something different. Something abit lighter too.

I'm pleased I managed to battle through the install from SD card malarky, but I have now run into a abit of a problem with my EEE PC 900.

The issue is related to xorg. I followed the eeepc guide here, but it mentions installing some xf86 packages, most downoad okay, but xf86-input-intel is not found. Then when i first tried startx, the screen went white - distored. and hung the system. I had to do a hard reset as even CTRL+ALT+F2 etc wasn't working. Ever since, I cannot even get that far now. I am getting the following errors, listed below.

[root@EEE900 ~]# startx
hostname: Unknown host
/usr/bin/startx: line 183:  1552 Segmentation fault      xauth -q -f "$xserverauthfile"  <<EOF
add :$dummy . $mcookie
EOF

/usr/bin/startx: line 168:  1556 Segmentation fault      xauth -q  <<EOF
add $displayname . $mcookie
EOF

/usr/bin/startx: line 168:  1560 Segmentation fault      xauth -q  <<EOF
add $displayname . $mcookie
EOF

/usr/bin/startx: line 196:  1561 Segmentation fault      xinit "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs
/usr/bin/startx: line 209:  1562 Segmentation fault      xauth remove $removelist

Hopefully someone can shed some light on my issues, many thanks!

Last edited by ecion (2010-01-23 16:29:31)

ecion

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 11

Re: Arch on EEE PC 900

Just read some more on the wiki, and realised I didn't supply enough info, here we go! many thanks!
xorg.conf = http://dpaste.com/149470/
Xorg.0.log = http://dpaste.com/149471/
.xinitrc = http://dpaste.com/149472/

rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: Arch on EEE PC 900

Try deleting your xorg.conf file (or rename it something else).  I have been using Arch on my eeePC 900 without an xorg, and it is all working perfectly for me with the standard kernel.

hw-tph

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 149

Re: Arch on EEE PC 900

Also, it looks like your hostname is not set. Check your /etc/rc.conf and set a sane hostname for your computer. xauth can be very unhappy if you haven't set a hostname.

ecion

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 11

Re: Arch on EEE PC 900

thanks for the responses guys.

hw-tph, thanks for the tip. I already had set a hostname, as you can see it says 'root@EEE900' - EEE900 is in the rc.conf. but it was erroring because I hadnt put EEE900 in /etc/hosts as well.

rsambuca, I tried it without an xorg.conf and still no joy. I got fed up and decided to start a fresh and reinstall. I've done everything the same again, but this time its working! hello xfce!