Issue with Xorg and hardware on a laptop

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 07:05:34

So as much as I hate to admit it, arch is kicking my proverbial you know what lol I am able to get the system set up. the hard drives partitioned , the network up and running, a second user installed, gnome, gdm, even nvidia drivers and xorg but for some reason I can not seem to get xorg to recognize the touch pad on my laptop. It picks up the keyboard just fine though. At least in testing, whenever I add gdm to the /etc/rc.conf file it will boot the system up to the gnome log in but then all my hardware locks up and I really have no idea why. Also for some strange reason I can not seem to get xorg to start with xstart or gnome-session.

I am sure I am missing something here but I spent the last four hours on the wiki and the forums looking up gnome, gdm, .xinit, all the moduals, deamons, hal, fam, garmin and a whole bunch other that is all just jumbled up into my head right now lol.

If anyone has any idea why I might be messing up in my xorg file or why gdm starts on start up but I can seem to start a session manually from the command line as root or non-root user it would be greatly appreciated. And sorry if I have over looked some things on search or the wiki I am pretty sure I did a good job of searching but at this point i am so tired I really am not sure.

Last edited by Valdeck (2009-03-28 07:44:53)

3nd3r · 2009-03-28 07:15:16

add this to your xorg.conf and see if that works

http://archlinux.pastebin.com/m4b51a541

Inxsible · 2009-03-28 07:16:58

For the touchpad, are you loading the synaptics module in xorg.conf, provided your touchpad is synaptics of course? That's all I had to do to get it up and running. Simply add

Load synaptics

to the modules section in xorg.
For ALPS, you will have to follow the wiki which lists the steps you have to take.

As for the gdm issues and X issues, check

dmesg | tail

Also check /var/log/messages /var/log/Xorg.log for suspicious activity.

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Valdeck · 2009-03-28 07:17:23

will do 3nd3r, hopefully that will fix the issue lol I am hoping I am just not being dense and dont realize it.

3nd3r · 2009-03-28 07:18:17

Inxsible wrote:

For the touchpad, are you loading the synaptics module in xorg.conf? That's all I had to do to get it up and running. Simply add
Load synaptics
to the modules section in xorg. As for the gdm issues and X issues, check
dmesg | tail
Also check /var/log/messages /var/log/Xorg.log for suspicious activity.

forgot about that xD

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 07:19:50

good point inx, i didnt even think about that but honestly I am not very good at all this just yet

tomk · 2009-03-28 07:41:50

General forum advice: the thread topic should summarise the issue described in the thread.

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 07:45:04

fixed

3nd3r · 2009-03-28 07:48:39

well? it work?

Inxsible · 2009-03-28 07:49:33

3nd3r wrote:

well? it work?

I think the "fixed" was only for the thread title

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3nd3r · 2009-03-28 07:57:37

yea im guessing so lol

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 08:11:09

sorry for the confusion, about to try it now one sec

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 08:24:24

bad news, the xserver simulation is showing a keyboard but no mouse still I will try and install gnome and gdm but I don't think it will help lol any ideas? and btw lots of warnings about multiple doodads being named and a few fatal errors about resource temporarily unavailable

also i amanged to get x to try and start off of startx however it says there is no screens

Last edited by Valdeck (2009-03-28 08:27:10)

3nd3r · 2009-03-28 08:31:39

kill X11 and in a terminal type this as root: X -configure

then try and run X11

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 08:35:07

strange, seems to be less errors however with the older xorg.conf it would load up a green background with 2 terminal windows now it wants to just load only a black screen with the X

edit

it does work if i plug in a mouse

making progress putting the final touches on gnome now and will see if it starts up... time to cross the fingers

Last edited by Valdeck (2009-03-28 08:50:24)

Alxe · 2009-03-28 09:01:08

Firstly try to recognize if your touchpad is a Synaptics. If it does, then follow the wiki, and get it working. Note that Synaptics are the most commons.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

Valdeck · 2009-03-28 17:33:38

well here is the thing. In the test the touchpad wouldnt work but once I load up gnome and got into the desktop the touchpad did seem to work but I only tried it while the usb mouse was connected. so I am not sure what is going on there theank you for all your help.

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