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drasticraft

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[SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

Hi, everybody. My Dell D630 has an Intel GM965 chipset. I followed the instructions in the beginner's guide to the 't', and when I do startx or xinit, my screen goes blank, even if I CTRL+ALT+F2 to a new terminal, I can't tell if my blind logins are working.

I am completely un installing Xorg and all of its dependencies as I type.

Any feedback is appreciated, as usual.

Last edited by drasticraft (2013-07-25 18:03:26)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post

If you want help, we need more information.

drasticraft

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

Here is my Xorg log file, grepped down to look for EE messages:

[   420.262] Current Operating System: Linux KRALIX 3.9.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 3 22:45:16 CEST 2013 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   420.418] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[   420.462] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[   420.471] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[   420.472] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[   465.697] (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

It looks like it isn't finding the 'intel' module. Would I have to add this to the initramfs module load section?

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

As a sanity check, what is the output of pacman -Qs xf86-
?

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drasticraft

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

local/libxxf86dga 1.1.4-1
    X11 Direct Graphics Access extension library
local/libxxf86vm 1.1.3-1
    X11 XFree86 video mode extension library
local/xf86-input-evdev 2.8.1-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org evdev input driver
local/xf86-input-synaptics 1.7.1-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    Synaptics driver for notebook touchpads
local/xf86-video-nv 2.1.20-3 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org nv video driver
local/xf86-video-vesa 2.3.2-3 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org vesa video driver
local/xf86dgaproto 2.1-2
    X11 Direct Graphics Access extension wire protocol
local/xf86vidmodeproto 2.3.1-2
    X11 Video Mode extension wire protocol

I am adding the intel module to the initramfs, just to see if that works.

jakobcreutzfeldt

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

You don't have xf86-video-intel installed.

drasticraft

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

But I did.

I distinctly remember installing that!

Whatever, I'll re-install it and try again...

drasticraft

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Re: [SOLVED]Dell D630 refuses to use Xorg

Well, I was right, that package was installed.
I had to add the module 'intel' to the initramfs.
But thank you for your help anyway!