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adrian_mx

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From: Cancún, Quintana Roo, México.

Registered: 2006-03-15

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Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

I have just installed Arch, and installed and configured xorg as is says in the wiki, X worked with twm, so I installed gnome and gnome-extra also with the Gnome wiki, then , when using the gnome-session command to open gnome it gives me the following error message:
"Gtk-WARNING **: Cannot open display:"

So I configured the ~/.xinitrc file and added the exec gnome-session line to make gnome the default, restarted and when using the startx command it gives me this message:
"(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory
(EE)Mouse1: Cannot open input device
(EE)PreInit failed for input device  "Mouse1"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>Warning:   Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>       Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X erver
No core pointer

Fatal Server Error:
failed to initialize core devices
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining."

And nothing happens, im still in the command line, can anyone help me out?

Cerebral

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

look in your xorg.conf for your mouse section - try replacing /dev/mouse with /dev/input/mice

adrian_mx

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From: Cancún, Quintana Roo, México.

Registered: 2006-03-15

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

ok, Im gonna try that, but my /dev folder is empty, does it matter?

Cerebral

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

... you have absolutely nothing in /dev ?  That's probably bad.  What kernel/udev are you running?

adrian_mx

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From: Cancún, Quintana Roo, México.

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

I use the 2.6.15 kernel that came with the Arch linux 0.7.1. cd, do you think I need to upgrade it?

Cerebral

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

If you've recently updated udev, then yes, I'm pretty sure you need to update the kernel alongside it - there are patches in the newer kernels that work with udev.

adrian_mx

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From: Cancún, Quintana Roo, México.

Registered: 2006-03-15

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Re: Problems starting X and gnome (Solved)

Ok, updated the kernel and udev and now when doing startx, gnome starts correctly, thanks.