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Hi! I've just installed Arch 0.6 on my laptop. I started with the base installation, and everything is running fine.
I installed XFree86 and all dependencies and configured it. Unfortunately, it doesn't find my USB mouse, although everything is ok for the touchpad.
How can I find out if the USB support is being launched when the machine starts? and what to do if not?
How can I edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in such a way that blackbox will be started when I call upon X (startx)?
thanx
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Hi! I've just installed Arch 0.6 on my laptop. I started with the base installation, and everything is running fine.
I installed XFree86 and all dependencies and configured it. Unfortunately, it doesn't find my USB mouse, although everything is ok for the touchpad.
How can I find out if the USB support is being launched when the machine starts? and what to do if not?How can I edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in such a way that blackbox will be started when I call upon X (startx)?
thanx
Oi, ok first steps - run "pacman -Syu"... you don't want to use XFree86, you want Xorg. This will make the file /etc/X11/xorg.config. Secondly, you do not change anything in the X config file to make a WM start. Assuming you have xorg.config setup properly, you want to do the following to make blackbox start upon calling "startx"
edit ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# programs you want run can go
# here as well... before the exec
# line which should be the last line
exec blackbox
Keep in mind, this will only work with "startx" - running XDM uses a similar concept, but calls the ~/.xsession file... KDM and GDM I can't recall how they do it...
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if you want two mouses(mice??) you need to edit your x config in a way I don't know about but try and search the forum for "usb mouse corepointer" or something similar,
search for all terms,
good luck
arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy
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Usually you set the touchpad as the CorePointer and set the USB mouse as SendCoreEvents:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Laptop"
Screen "Laptop"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USBMouse" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
My USB mouse is /dev/input/mice and my touchpad is /dev/psaux.
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Thanks for the tips.
I have no available connection at this moment, can i do the
pacman -Syu
setting the installations CD as server (I tried but nothing happened), and will it work for the purpose?
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Thanks for the tips.
I have no available connection at this moment, can i do the
pacman -Syu
setting the installations CD as server (I tried but nothing happened), and will it work for the purpose?
ah, ok... I understand. If you can, try to get the 0.7 install CD with X.org - you can do pacman -Syu on that CD to upgrade... but for now XFree86 will work
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this time with alsa.
the laptop on which I installed Archlinux 0.6 is an Asus A2000H, whose soundcard is a Realtek AC97 s/w, compatible with Sound Blaster Pro.
I couldn't find the soundcard on the Alsa database, so i tried with the module of the Sound Blaster Pro, but it didn't work. Then I tried the alsaconf command, but nothing worked neither.
As anybody any hint?
Also, after Alsa module is successfully configured, is that information kept in the system? where? I ask this because I still have to whole system files of my previous linux distribution (Mandrake 10.0 Community)
thanks.
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no one ever offers the easiest route.
Get hwd (pacman -S hwd) and run it (hwd -s). cd to /etc/X11/ and mv xorg.conf.hwd to xorg.conf. Autoconfig xorg is now yours.
This will also tell you the audio modules to load. hwd rocks.
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ok, sound is fixed, thanks to all of you.
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