xorg. Somethings Just not right...

swooshonln · 2006-11-12 06:59:19

Ok. So I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't "startx" after installing xorg and my ati drivers. Now it seems I have a strange problem. I installed fluxbox (via pacman -Sy fluxbox fluxconf menumaker) and added "exec startfluxbox" to my ~/.xinitrc script. Fluxbox starts fine, but that about as far as it goes. I use the menu to open up gaim, which opens, only It looks quite weird. The title bar (that says Buddy List) is doubled (as in, there are 2 on top of each other), only the second one is only about a 1/4 the length (it just stops. This happens with every window I open. Thats not the only thing wrong though. At the bottom, where you can add and remove buddies etc, I just see a big Gaim icon with "Available" beside it. If I click it I can change my away status. However, it covers up everything else. What could be causing this?

Cotton · 2006-11-12 11:48:17

No idea.

Suggest moving your existing xorg.conf somewhere, then creating a new one with xorgcfg -textmode and starting with vesa.
Assuming that works, change it to the driver for your specific card.

If not, presumably you are missing a required xorg module or your hardware is suspect.

swooshonln · 2006-11-12 15:23:31

It cant be hardware, I had a 100% working system with gentoo. Ill look into everything else though.

pelle.k · 2006-11-12 15:38:18

Try installing gdm. If you can start gdm, everything else should run as well. gdm will refuse to load if you are missing any bits and pieces. It is not a solution, but it will show you the solution...

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xorg. Somethings Just not right...

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