Installing Arch Linux 0.7.2

EmyrB · 2006-09-04 20:20:40

:cry: No idea if this topic has been posted before, but at the risk of being flamed here goes... Just installed my a base Arch Linux 0.7.2 system. Everything went very smooth. Did a pacman -Syu and updated everything, still ok.

I then went to install Xorg, and followed the instructions in the wiki for installing it and this is where I hit a snag. xclock is missing. I have tried to pacman it with xorg-xclock and even xclock on its own, but to no avail

This doesn't stop the X server from loading though, but I have followed the instructions to get GDM working but this fails also. I can't quite catch the exact error as it clears the screen and goes to a bash log in prompt.

Is there a complete comprehensive newbie friendly guide to installing a base Arch Linux System which includes Xorg and GDM or KDM and Gnome and KDE setup?

Any helpful tips will be gladly recieved as I really want to get my Arch Linux system up because Gentoo is a bit too hard for me at the moment

Cheers

EmyrB

fk · 2006-09-04 20:22:19

have you create an xorg.conf?

Please post your ~/.xinitrc

pressh · 2006-09-04 20:25:51

xclock is part of xorg-apps.

please post the steps you've made, and the error you get.

somairotevoli · 2006-09-04 21:44:36

it wants to start xclock because it is using the default xinitrc.
located here /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

remove the lines

# start some nice programs
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

or install xorg-apps

pacman -S xorg-apps

or install a DE

xorg wiki > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
desktop > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Environment
post install wiki > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ation_Tips

clownfish · 2006-09-05 01:21:47

just install xterm:

pacman -Sy xterm

that should be enough!

EmyrB · 2006-09-05 07:42:36

Hi and thanks for all your comments.

I have created Xorg.config by following the Xorg wiki linked in somairotevoli reply and created one manually and through hwd.

I shall try later and install xorg-apps and I will try and catch the error message it displays with GDM. I installed Gnome as well, so I do have a DE.

Cheers

EmyrB

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#1 2006-09-04 20:20:40

Installing Arch Linux 0.7.2

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Re: Installing Arch Linux 0.7.2

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