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#1 2008-08-20 18:53:59

techprophet
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Xorg goes to white screen

Hello again. I am back to arch. I love arch. But my old computer died and the crappy one I have now apparently doesn't like Xorg.

When I start Xorg using startx or /etc/rc.d/entranced I get a white screen. pure white. not even a mouse.

I used Xorg -configure to get a new xorg.conf and then moved it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I have an integrated Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/Ge card. It says VGA compatible.

Any help on this? I am using the vga driver.

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#2 2008-08-21 07:38:54

mpie
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Re: Xorg goes to white screen

try the intel drivers or i810. if you want stability over performance use i810

pacman -S xf86-video-intel  or pacman -S xf86-video-i810

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#3 2008-08-21 14:16:38

techprophet
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Re: Xorg goes to white screen

I tried both, neither worked. They didn't go to white, but they didn't show anything but colored lines either. But I guess that might be a step in the right direction.

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#4 2008-08-22 05:17:14

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Re: Xorg goes to white screen

you have to redo your Xorg.conf or just change the driver line to intel or i810

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#5 2008-08-22 13:29:07

techprophet
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Re: Xorg goes to white screen

I did. I'm (thankfully) not a newbie. I have Ubuntu working nicely on here, I am going to lsmod it and see what it uses. (Ubuntu's xorg.conf files are impossible to use on other OSs everything reads "Configured <device>")

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