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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

cdrom not working?

well, after installing i thought i could work on my own but i think i fail again to understand what is happening here

the cdrom is either acting weird or arch linux don't want to recognize it

the problem im having is that the cd i insert won't read
i need to install dchpd to get my internet working

I don't know whats wrong now, it was working fine while i was installing arch, but now it just.. won't mount, or won't do anything

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: cdrom not working?

Check the device location of your drive against the entry in /etc/fstab.

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: cdrom not working?

new problem

the cd mounted, i did pacman --sync -refresh

it couldn't find the cd.db.tar.gz or something like that

I'm really having problems, i don't know how to set my internet, i recieve internet via lan, any ideas of what should i do to make this work?

russianpirate

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Registered: 2006-05-17

Posts: 161

Re: cdrom not working?

run the command again and copy a few last lines of the output

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: cdrom not working?

everything is working!, im very happy now, im running gnome, which its freaking fast

but im having some problems, you see im not sure if GDM starts automatic

also, the GRUB... i just upgraded to the lastest kernel.. butt.. i dont know if GRUb menu.lst updated.. since its in the other partition i dont know how it would work..

profoX

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-04-13

Posts: 110

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Re: cdrom not working?

I don't think that you have to update menu.lst, it will automatically load the newest kernel.

As for your GDM issue, do something in the style of this:

in the "/etc/inittab" file:

Make sure the initdefault is 5

id:5:initdefault:

then make sure this line is present in the file:

x:5:once:/opt/gnome/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

I think that should work, but I don't boot in GDM so I'm not sure. Maybe the wiki is worth a shot for more detailed information about setting up GDM and/or Gnome.

Good luck!

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: cdrom not working?

thanks a lot,

i just installed my nvidia drivers, it took me a while because of the directories... why is xserver installed too? i mean different directories is confusing.. i relaly don't know

also, i want to use 1280 but the option doesn't appear, which is weird, and..

my last problem

ldconfig been whinning for some time now

/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 is empty, not checked.

profoX

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-04-13

Posts: 110

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Re: cdrom not working?

How did you install the nvidia drivers?
The recommended way (the preferred way when you have standard kernels) is doing:

pacman -S nvidia

Then you have to generate the xorg.conf if you haven't already done so and edit it. The easiest way to do this is by running

nvidia-xconfig

Ofcourse, you can also edit xorg.conf by hand.
More information about setting up nvidia can be found at the archwiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … DIA_driver

I also believe that the ldconfig error should disappear after successfully installing nvidia.

About the 1280 resolution, you can add it by hand in /etc/xorg.conf
Find the place where the resolutions are and then edit the "Modes" line(s) like this:

Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"

(I don't know if your precise resolution is 1280x1024 or 1280x960 or anything else..)

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profoX

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-04-13

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Re: cdrom not working?

oh, and next time you might want to post separate problems in separate topics, you might get more response that way, because some users just glance over the topics and enter the topics they know alot about

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: cdrom not working?

thanks a lot to everyone, it looks like my system is now stable and got everything running ^^

profoX

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-04-13

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Re: cdrom not working?

you're very welcome enjoy arch

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