Problems with X11

pxhza · 2009-05-03 17:22:48

Hi,

I've installed a Arch base system using wiki's The Beginner's Guide. Now when I'm trying to install X, as taught in Guide, my computer crashes/tilts/freezes every time I run "X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf" even if I try to hit ctrl+alt+backspace nothin happens --> have to restart computer.

My xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Tue Mar 24 06:15:32 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen         "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "false"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 101.0
    VertRefresh     60.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
        Depth 16
    Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

My monitor is Acer Al2216W, keyboard and mouse are with usb-plugs.
Any ides how to proceed?

ralvez · 2009-05-03 17:44:21

pxhza,

"There is not stupid question but the one is never asked" or so told me one of my teachers when I was a young kid.

Try starting X without an xorg.conf file, that may work just fine.

Instead of cold rebooting try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3 .... F7) to to go another console and reboot from there if you need to.

Hope this helps.

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-05-03 17:46:01)

pxhza · 2009-05-04 17:09:46

Thanks ralvez, X works now.

...But i run into another problem:

I installed xfce4 to my DE + put hal and fam to the daemons list in rc.conf. But now when i type startxfce4 it gives me two error messages and then closes X and throws me back to the console.

First error message: "Failed toexecute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session."
Second is in Finnish, but i try to translate: "Couldn't determine error-resisting(?) sessions name. possible reasons: xfconfd isn't running (D-Bus problem), Global variable (???) $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is wrongly set (should include "/etc") or xfce4-session is wrongly installed."

Any ideas? Can I find error log of some sort to post here?

R00KIE · 2009-05-04 19:54:18

Did you install dbus? That seems to be the problem.

pxhza · 2009-05-04 20:24:21

Well f*ck, that was hard to fix Whole problem vanished with dbus intallion. Wonder why that isn't mentioned in Beginner's guide...? But anyway, thanks ROOKIE

Edit: Now, this isn't really a serious problem, but i wonder how i can make arch completely english? I don't recall changing the language at any point. Of course i changed the keyboard layout's to get working finnish keyboard, but the OS itself should stay in english. So: where can i choose OS's and DE's languages?

Edit2: Never mind, rc.conf and "en_US.iso88591" was the answer.

Last edited by pxhza (2009-05-04 21:07:18)

pxhza · 2009-05-05 13:32:38

Need help fast:

I installed entrance as my login manager and putted in rc.conf / daemons. Now it starts automatically but it doesn't login; it just throws me back to the login window. How can i bypass the automatical download of entrance so i could login in arch with some other way. Now i can't do anthing.

EDIT: I found an old ubuntu live cd and managed to edit rc.conf's daemons and remove entrance from there. Now arch boots and i can get to the xfce with "startxfce4" command. Any idea how to make entrance work?

EDIT2: I have problem with using my external hard drive (usb) with normal user. As a root i can ofcourse write/read but with normal user this says that i don't have permissions. After i gave "storage" group permissions to read/write to the drive and added myself to the group, i become able to open the drive but still every file is only for root; i can't even read them. If i try to change the files permission (with root) it says "Operation not supported". What to do? I really need files in that hard drive.

EDIT3: Well, this is interesting... After few reboots and lot's of swaring the hard drive finally gave me permissions to read/write.

EDIT4: By the way, there's is something wrong in my clock...? Xfce, "hwclock" and "date" all give me wrong time (three hours ahead so it is probably GMT+5 because mine is GMT+2 (plus extra hour 'cause summertime)) How i can change the clock? I have right timezone and utc in rc.conf. If i remember correctly the motherboard's clock is right.

Last edited by pxhza (2009-05-05 17:18:25)

thisoldman · 2009-05-07 01:35:50

For number 4:
As root, set the date and time by:

# date MMDDhhmmYYYY

where MM=month, DD=day, hh=hour, mm=minute, YYYY=year.

date by itself, with no arguments, will call up the current date and time.

Last edited by thisoldman (2009-05-07 01:40:07)

pxhza · 2009-05-07 15:39:02

Thanks, but i corrected the time with openNTPD. Altough it still bugs me why the time didn't work when: Hardwareclock="UTC" , Timezone="Europe/helsinki" and BIOS time was correct...?

rzodkiewka · 2009-05-08 15:03:44

ad. 2 Primitive but always works, what I did: created /media/disk and /media/disk1 directories and added to fstab:

/dev/sdb1               /media/disk  auto    user,noauto             0      0
/dev/sdb2               /media/disk1 auto    user,noauto             0      0

Now just mount it with

$ mount /media/disk

as normal user and no more worrying about any hal-dependent DE tools :>

Last edited by rzodkiewka (2009-05-08 15:08:07)

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Problems with X11

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