[SOLVED]Can't startx

acgtyrant · 2013-04-09 06:24:42

My video card is NVIDIA Corporation GT218 GeForce 405.

And the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5343337

Forgive my poor English.

Last edited by acgtyrant (2013-04-09 11:04:27)

x33a · 2013-04-09 06:58:45

You are booting from the live disc?

Please post the details of your environment. Have you installed the appropriate drivers, and a desktop environment etc.

acgtyrant · 2013-04-09 10:05:40

I just installed archlinux following beginner'guide.

Everything is nice until trying video driver, it failed to execute startx.

Trilby · 2013-04-09 10:28:10

Which video driver(s) have you installed?

acgtyrant · 2013-04-09 10:37:07

I had tried nvidia and xf86-video-nv, they are no useful.

And it was nvidia when I copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Last edited by acgtyrant (2013-04-09 10:37:51)

x33a · 2013-04-09 10:43:10

The log shows

Kernel command line: archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201304 initrd=boot/x86_64/archiso.img BOOT_IMAGE=boot/x86_64/vmlinuz

This means you haven't installed arch to the disk yet. Please try installing it to a disk first, then update the system, install the required packages and drivers and then try to startx.

Trilby · 2013-04-09 11:00:10

Ah, that's where you got that. Yes, indeed, you need to boot your newly installed system, not the iso.

acgtyrant · 2013-04-09 11:03:01

@x33a I have installed arch to the disk already. Actually I boot into arch livecd firstly, then execute "arch-chroot /mnt" to control the arch system from disk.

I did this because I found I can connect to network only by this way, in other word, I can't connect to network when boot the arch system from disk firstly. I don't know why.

However, you are right. I boot arch system from disk firstly, then execute startx successfully! Thank you very much! o(￣▽￣)ｄ

acgtyrant · 2013-04-09 11:03:46

@Trilby Yea, you are right. Thank you.

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