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Crooksey

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[SOLVED] Cant load X

I have just installed an Arch system after using gentoo for about a year, and so far from what i hvae tested its great

Firstly i installed a system with base, networking, system and editors. I insatlled, got my network up and running, then went around building X. I went to the arch wiki, and followed the commands with pacman to insatll packages "gnome" + "gnome-extra", this worked perfectly.

Then rebooted, logged in, went to run the command

gnome-session

To which i recive the error

gnome-session:2953 ** Gtk - warning **: Locale not supported by C libary.
Using fall back 'C' locale.

Gnome- Gtk warning, cannot open display

So, i try running a "startx" command, it tells me the command is invalid, or does not exist, any ideas?

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fk

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Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

Hello, welcome in the Archworld

OK you have installed Gnome, but not X , you have to run

pacman -S xorg xterm

gnome-session:2953 ** Gtk - warning **: Locale not supported by C libary.
Using fall back 'C' locale.

you must edit the /etc/locale.gen uncomment your Locales and run

locale-gen

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Crooksey

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

what locales will i need to uncomment?

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fk

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

what locales will i need to uncomment?

The locales do you will have!

eg. en_US UTF8 if you will have an english system with UTF8 support

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Gullible Jones

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

Actually you must also uncomment both the entries for en_US for that locale to work.

fk

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

Actually you must also uncomment both the entries for en_US for that locale to work.

:shock: why I have only en_US UTF8 an it work

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Paul

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Registered: 2004-04-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

I had the same problem (startx not found), try installing xorg-xinit.

Gullible Jones

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

'pacman -S xorg' will install a dummy package that has all the deps you need. The thing you have to remember with Arch is that Xorg is modularized...

sula

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Registered: 2005-08-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

Actually you must also uncomment both the entries for en_US for that locale to work.

He propably would rather want an en_GB locale judging from his location.

Crooksey

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

i have uncommented both en_BG's, ran locale-gen, that worked, but gnome will not start, i can now run X, becuase startx takes me too tvwm. I have added gnome-session to the ~/.xinitrc, that dosent work, and the plain command of "gnome-session" dosent work, any other ideas?

Ok i need the US uncommented aswell, thanks for all the help

I thought i wsa in the clear....

So i run xorgconfig, all goes well, i then startx

module "nv" does not exist

Now can i just pacman this "nv" driver, or can i pacman the nvidia-glx and go staright to 3D?

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

to get nv:
pacman -S xf86-video-nv
If you want to use the nvidia drivers instead, you'll need to install either nvidia or nvidia-legacy depending on your card.

Put:
exec gnome-session
in ~/.xinitrc and try running startx.

Crooksey

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

startx i got working before...

I insatlled "nvidia" type "satrtx", get the nvidia splash screen, but it says my mouse is not at /dev/mouse, so how do i find the default location of my mouse?

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detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

look in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the part "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/input/mice"

Crooksey

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Re: [SOLVED] Cant load X

Thanks guys, im finally in X w00t, none the less, with all these problems, i would still be downloading packages in gentoo after this amount of time

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