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Zalethon

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Registered: 2009-03-01

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X

I just recently installed X, according to the beginners guide at the archwiki, and installed HAL to repair the hotplugging issue. It seems to have worked, however the mouse and keyboard cease operation shortly after running X... They work fine for a few seconds, and then stop. I am forced to turn off the computer manually.

It's not accessible right now, so I don't have access to any system information. (Such as chip set--it requires the intel driver, whatever it is) I did not create an xorg.conf file. Beyond the input problems, the automatic configuration seems to work fine...

skottish

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Re: X

To get back into the system, when grub starts (assuming you use grub), hit 'e' to edit, select the kernel line and press 'e' again, then append '3' (without the quotes) to the end of that line. It will put you back to the menu. Choose 'b' for boot and you can get into the console.

Once there, try installing xf86-input-evdev if you didn't already.

dolby

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Re: X

Theres no need to install either evdev or hal manually as installing xorg-server will pick up both.
Have you added hal to the daemons array in /etc/rc.conf? If you dont want to reboot to enable it exec "/etc/rc.d/hal start" as root

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skottish

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Re: X

I didn't even notice that evdev is a dependency of xorg-server now.

Zalethon

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Re: X

I did install evdev and hal manually, (i.e. via pacman) but I'm really not sure if they weren't installed already. Hal is set as a daemon, but even starting it manually, and then just running X yields the same results.

Zalethon

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Re: X

Bump... I'm on the box in question now, at least. (Using w3m, still haven't made X work)

cdwillis

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Re: X

Generating an xorg.conf would probably solve your problem.

Zalethon

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Re: X

In the past, when I've generated the file on my own, I've been unable to achieve a resolution higher than 800x600, while Debian (which generates it automatically, as far as I can tell) runs it fine higher. Debian's xorg.conf file did not work when I tried it.

Regardless, I generated an xorg.conf file using hwd, and I encountered the same problem. (But at a smaller resolution, judging by the size of the pointer relative to the screen... Go figure) I haven't tried only using the keyboard and mouse sections yet, but as it stands it seems like that won't work...