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#1 2010-05-11 02:44:58

shva
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Registered: 2009-04-25
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[solved]boot with a messy GUI

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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#2 2010-05-11 02:46:46

schen
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Registered: 2009-06-06
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Re: [solved]boot with a messy GUI

Did you install a video driver?

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#3 2010-05-11 02:48:21

shva
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Registered: 2009-04-25
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Re: [solved]boot with a messy GUI

I just followed the beginner's installation guide and installed X, but did not explicitly installed the video card driver...

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#4 2010-05-11 02:54:46

demizer
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Re: [solved]boot with a messy GUI

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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#5 2010-05-11 03:38:44

shva
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Registered: 2009-04-25
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Re: [solved]boot with a messy GUI

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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#6 2010-07-12 11:32:46

Spider.007
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Re: [solved]boot with a messy GUI

demizer wrote:

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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