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#1 2009-06-05 10:19:42
- longtom
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Xorg error
Hi,
me again.... I have followed the beginners guide (I know - they all say that...) and the following happens, when I do a "startx"
The xterm session pops up (small - I guess 640x480), as it should, but than I am frozen. No keyboard input - and the cursor appears somewhere down right and not up left, where it belongs.
What did I do wrong this time?
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longtom
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#2 2009-06-05 10:46:01
- Perry3D
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Re: Xorg error
Give us some information. For example the content of these files:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
Which grafics card are you using?
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#3 2009-06-05 11:06:11
- longtom
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Re: Xorg error
I'd love to do that....
How do I copy something in nano and paste it here?
Since I am using Arch in a VirtualBox, I used Vesa as the Video setting.
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longtom
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#4 2009-06-05 13:58:45
- dmartins
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Re: Xorg error
Install wgetpaste: pacman -S wgetpaste
Run: wgetpaste <filename-goes-here>
Post the link it gives you.
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#5 2009-06-05 14:35:21
- eldragon
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Re: Xorg error
all i can say is, do you have the hal daemon running? you need that for xorg to hotplugg your keyboard/mouse
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#6 2009-06-05 14:38:12
- longtom
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Re: Xorg error
all i can say is, do you have the hal daemon running? you need that for xorg to hotplugg your keyboard/mouse
Yes - I figured that in the meantime. I have it running, but didn't manage to have it at startup. The last time I tried I shreded my rc.conf. No I start up as none...guess a restart is on the hands.
All part of the vertical learning curve...:/
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#7 2009-06-05 14:49:41
- eldragon
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Re: Xorg error
eldragon wrote:all i can say is, do you have the hal daemon running? you need that for xorg to hotplugg your keyboard/mouse
Yes - I figured that in the meantime. I have it running, but didn't manage to have it at startup. The last time I tried I shreded my rc.conf. No I start up as none...guess a restart is on the hands.
All part of the vertical learning curve...:/
so...you didnt follow the newbie's guide, you just read it 
before doing startx, do /etc/rc.d/hal start if you wish to test wether its hal missing the culprit of your problem
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