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Xyzk

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Registered: 2007-04-30

Posts: 44

Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

I have installed Arch x86_64. When i got to the moment where i`m supposed to install hwd- i have an error:

pacman-S hwd
hwd: not found in sync db

I`ve checked what modules connected with hwd I can install.

[root@localhost_xyzk ~]# pacman -Ss hwd
current/hwdetect 0.8-6
    Hardware detection script, loading modules and mkinitcpio.conf / rc.conf
    support included
current/lshwd 1.1.3-5
    lists hardware and approp modules

I thought "Hey! for what you need hwd? On gentoo you used Xorg -configure, this time it should work also!". But now i have new problem. The program made a new file in a directory: "/root/xorg.conf.new". When i used command "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new" everything was working fine. So i copied it to the standard directory "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". It wasn`t good idea either, after this, when i was trying "startx" i was getting:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitric: line 28: twm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitric: line 29: xclock: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitric: line 30: xterm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitric: line 31: xterm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitric: line 32: exec: xterm: command not found

waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refc...(here monitor cut out small part of text)...ount is 2,should be 1; fixing.

Anyone know how to help? My /etc/pacman.conf:
http://wklej.org/id/4138cb372f

sebcactus

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-01-27

Posts: 277

Re: Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

As far as I know, hwd is not necessary anymore.

For X, you need to have a desktop environment (or a window manager) set up and create your own ~/.xinitrc, otherwise it is running twm with a few xterms and xclock (rather ugly). Did you install gnome or kde or xfce or enlightenment or fluxbox or something else?
You can install twm to test it, if you want: pacman -S xorg-twm.

Last edited by sebcactus (2007-04-30 12:35:12)

Xyzk

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Registered: 2007-04-30

Posts: 44

Re: Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

Ok, thx it worked.

Driadan

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From: Madrid (Spain)

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 36

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Re: Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

you could try and build hwd from abs. Haven't tryed this miself, I didn't have much trouble configuring it.

Another option to configure X is xconf or xconfig.

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

I have installed Arch x86_64. When i got to the moment where i`m supposed to install hwd- i have an error:

pacman-S hwd
hwd: not found in sync db

I`ve checked what modules connected with hwd I can install.

hwd includes some i686 asm code for monitor detection that is not x86_64 compatible. no way to get it build with that code part.

l33tunderground

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 103

Re: Hwd not working, Xorg -configure has issues

Well, I know this post has been dead for a while but in case anyone stumbles across this on google or something I thought I'd post this:

**This worked for me I hope it does for you too**
If you have the error message for Xorg listed above about twm and xterm etc... that is what is messing you up, it isn't the FreeFontPath. It looks like it but in .xinitrc if you delete anything having to do with twm or xclock/term or anything else you havent installed yet it will fix that. That leaves freefont still but it is non-fatal. This was good news to me so I hope it helps someone else too!