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network45

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Registered: 2007-12-14

Posts: 7

Gnome Splashy Qingy Issues

Hi there this is ac,
                             First I would like to thank all the people behind Arch Linux, the users, developers, various contributors, documentation writers, testers, debuggers and all those people who form the backbone of Arch.

I must say that this is the first time I have installed a BASE distro and then built upon it whatever I want. My boot time compared to other distros is quite fast and almost everything worked for me the first time itself.  Thanks to the excellent guides and notes on the WiKi and the user discussions on this forum. 

I have the following three issues on ARCH linux and I request anybod to please help me out

1.  Installed Qingy as per instructions, worked, could see the Qingy login screen - but root login is not working

2.  Installed Gnome, loaded all the dameons into RC.CONF, followed all instructions, and gnome starts but the feel is very sluggish, anything that I do in gnome such as maximixing or minimising a window, starting an app. everything seems very sticky and sluggish.  Of course Gnome starts fast.

3.  Splashy worked as per instructions but does not show a login prompt, I have to press ALT+F1 to get the prompt.  Also splashy does not come during powering down or reboots.

4. Blue Tooth support how to enable it.

My tech. specifications - AMD Athlon XP 1.7 GHZ, 1.5 GIGS of RAM, NVIDIA Gforce MX-440, Nvidia drivers loaded as per arch wiki.

Any help would be appreciated, but please help me, I may be a linux user, but a newbie to ARCH. 

Regards
AC.

phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

Posts: 182

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Re: Gnome Splashy Qingy Issues

Hi there this is ac,
                             First I would like to thank all the people behind Arch Linux, the users, developers, various contributors, documentation writers, testers, debuggers and all those people who form the backbone of Arch.

I must say that this is the first time I have installed a BASE distro and then built upon it whatever I want. My boot time compared to other distros is quite fast and almost everything worked for me the first time itself.  Thanks to the excellent guides and notes on the WiKi and the user discussions on this forum.

You are quite polite, just like how polite I used to be. However, my experience is that you should keep your question simple and clear. There are many snobbish folks in linux world. Arch community is very nice, but I had horrible experience somewhere else. In one word, being TOO polite may give you trouble.

I have the following three issues on ARCH linux and I request anybod to please help me out

1.  Installed Qingy as per instructions, worked, could see the Qingy login screen - but root login is not working

I have been playing with Qingy these days. Just give you some hints. What you need to do is to modify /etc/securetty. What you need to do is that add a line

tty7

if you enabled tty1~tty6 for Qingy in /etc/inittab. If you only enabled tty1~tty3, you may add "tty4" in /etc/securetty.

You have another option which is to comment out the line with securetty_pam in /etc/pam.d/qingy. I have not tried this option, but it should work.

All my suggestions are based on my experiences, and I am still researching on WHY?

2.  Installed Gnome, loaded all the dameons into RC.CONF, followed all instructions, and gnome starts but the feel is very sluggish, anything that I do in gnome such as maximixing or minimising a window, starting an app. everything seems very sticky and sluggish.  Of course Gnome starts fast.

It is hard to say what went wrong without your xorg.conf. Your rig is not very fast judging by today's standards, and I am not sure what junks you might loaded.

However, please make sure you use nvidia-driver-96xx instead of nvidia. I don't think your card is supported by 100 series of nvidia driver.

3.  Splashy worked as per instructions but does not show a login prompt, I have to press ALT+F1 to get the prompt.  Also splashy does not come during powering down or reboots.

I suggest you give up with this kind of crap. When you reach a level that you know how to compile your own customized kernel, try gesplash/fbsplash from gentoo community. It looks much nicer and you got a pretty background on your console.

4. Blue Tooth support how to enable it.

Google more, it takes too much time to explain everything and it depends on what you want to do.

My tech. specifications - AMD Athlon XP 1.7 GHZ, 1.5 GIGS of RAM, NVIDIA Gforce MX-440, Nvidia drivers loaded as per arch wiki.

Any help would be appreciated, but please help me, I may be a linux user, but a newbie to ARCH. 

Regards
AC.