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ciropom

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Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 26

Xorg with LXDE

Hallo to everyone!
and merry christmas

I have a little problem with Xorg
I had followed the guide on archwiki about installation of Xorg, I've installed hwd (in order to detect correct driver for video card) and i had
used command hwd -x in order to generate xorg.conf file.. but when I start my system into runlevel 5, the graphics is too bad.

Then I've tryed to see what says /var/log/Xorg.0.log
an it report some warnings and errors... like this

(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic").
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera" does not exis$
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

how I can do?
I've no ideas to fix it...

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Xorg with LXDE

Hi, ciropom,

the errors you are getting only mean that paths to fonts declared on the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file do not really
exist on the file system.

To get rid of them you either delete the paths declaration from the xorg.conf or install the missing fonts.

Take a look at the /usr/share/fonts directory.

In your case the fonts that come on the warning messages are not normally needed, so I would delete the xorg.conf
declarations.

I usually install the packages:

artwiz-fonts
ttf-ms-fonts
xorg-fonts-misc
ttf-dejavu

If you really need cyrillic, install:

xorg-fonts-cyrillic

Mektub

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ciropom

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Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 26

Re: Xorg with LXDE

many thanks! the warnings are fixed, but I have all this errors in my /var/log/Xorg.o.log

(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed

I think that they are related to hal daemon but I cannot be able to configure hal
Can you help me?

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Xorg with LXDE

ciropom,

you really don't need Type1 and record. Just delete or comment them out in the modules section of xorg.conf.
What comes after that is new to me. I use nvidia.

Better: I suppose that you are using the latest version of xorg-server (1.5.3). This new server can start without a xorg.conf.

Just move xorg.conf to another name, restart X and tell what happens.

I don't think that "hwd" knows about the details of the new server.

And, what is your graphic cards brand ?

Mektub

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ciropom

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Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 26

Re: Xorg with LXDE

thank you for your quick reply,
I'll try to follow your advice.

My graphics card is an intel (new driver xf86-video-intel)

capnfabs

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From: Wollongong, Australia

Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 32

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Re: Xorg with LXDE

hi ciropom,

i'm also new to Arch (from ubuntu) and had heaps of difficulty setting up Xorg with an intel graphics card too.

My solution was to, instead of using hwd, run Xorg --configure. this will generate a configuration file; it worked for me.

note that you'll still have to comment out the irrelevant font lines.

good luck!

Last edited by capnfabs (2008-12-27 12:53:02)