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Hi everyone,
After some work I installed my first Arch in my netbook (Lenovo S10). It worked well without GUI. And then I installed X, xfce and login manager slim, modify /etc/inittab and reboot. It did start with a GUI, but the pixels were so messed up that I could not recognize anything meaningful. I wanted to switch to other ttys, by pressing ctrl+alt+f1 (or f2,...), but they all turned to be just black. Did it have anything to do with the video card driver? Now I am just hanging there because I do not know how to go back to the command line... Can anyone give some help? Thanks.
Last edited by shva (2010-05-11 03:39:04)
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Did you install a video driver?
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I just followed the beginner's installation guide and installed X, but did not explicitly installed the video card driver...
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I would recommend booting the arch linux install disk and Chroot into your environment and reverting /etc/inittab. Then just use "startx" to start x11 until you can figure out how to fix the problem. Also, check your /var/log/Xorg.error.log to see what is crapping out on you.
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It turns out to be the driver problem. After I install the correct driver (xf86-video-intel), everything works fine. Thanks guys!
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I would recommend booting the arch linux install disk and Chroot into your environment and reverting /etc/inittab. Then just use "startx" to start x11 until you can figure out how to fix the problem. Also, check your /var/log/Xorg.error.log to see what is crapping out on you.
there is no need for this, just pass a runlevel to the kernel (from grub), by appending the specified number (eg. 3) to the kernel line
Last edited by Spider.007 (2010-07-12 11:33:18)
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