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phoenix89

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Registered: 2009-08-07

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Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

I have been following the Arch Linux Beginners Guide using VMware Workstation.  Everything has been working fine except the point where I couldn't get the hardware abstraction layer started or X started.

I tried the things in this other thread that seemed similar.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61722&p=2

toad

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Re: Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

let's have a look at the daemon array of your rc.conf then

also, any error messages when you start the daemon manually?

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phoenix89

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Re: Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

Not really sure if I understand what you are asking because of my limited knowledge of linux.  But here is what I think you are talking about.

DAEMONS = (syslog-ng hal network netfs crond kdm)

What do you mean by manually starting daemons manually, if you mean starting
Xorg, then I get an error.

It say something about Fatal Screen Error: No Screens found

and says

xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor

djszapi

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Re: Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

Hello Phoenix89!

Maybe toad thought for that, if you boot your system in init level 3, and then manually starting /etc/rc.d/hal start/restart.

Is there any error output in syslog -> /var/log/messages.log ?

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phoenix89

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Re: Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

So I went through all the steps over again, and install VMware Tools and I was able to get what I believe is KDE desktop but now I can't change tty and it won't accept any user input keyboard or mouse movement.

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Re: Trying to get KDE installed, Hardware Abstraction Layer keeps failing.

Perhaps it is the order of the Daemons in rc.conf.........................

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