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Haptic

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Registered: 2009-09-03

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Xorg Editing

First, I simply created a .conf with

# Xorg -configure

When I use

X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It's all black, but if I do

startx

I actually see some things.

When I exit out of both cases, I get a bunch of errors (something along the lines of error(8) and unexpected signal 2).
What could be the problem?

Also, the whole thing just crashes when I change "vesa" to "radeonhd" even though I have downloaded/installed the driver and I have a dual ATI Radeon HD 3600.

Last edited by Haptic (2009-09-04 04:21:28)

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

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Re: Xorg Editing

All you need to do is Xorg -configure and just move or copy the file from your home directory to /etc/X11 then it should work. Make sure you have the appropriate drivers installed before creating a .conf

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xorg Editing

Delete xorg.conf an try again. Or else, put in the xorg.conf, only these:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "My Graphics Card"
    Driver      "radeonhd"
       Option      "DRI" "on" 
EndSection

if you have xf86-video-radeonhd installed.

Haptic

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Registered: 2009-09-03

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Re: Xorg Editing

I'm not sure what I did, but when I do

X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I can't get out using Alt+Ctrl+F1...

It seems to be freezing everytime I test.  What would cause this?  The basic X -configure freezes also.

Using VirtualBox btw

Last edited by Haptic (2009-09-05 00:29:13)

flamelab

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Re: Xorg Editing

You mean you want X to start in Virtualbox'ed installation ? So enable Virtualbox additions up in the menu, mount /dev/sr0 (which now has Virtualbox additions in it) somewhere (I suppose that you don't have graphics enabled yet), run the appropriate .run file for you architecture, then try to enable xorg.conf, but I think that the .run file changes xorg.conf the proper way to make graphics work.

Last edited by flamelab (2009-09-05 00:49:41)

Haptic

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Re: Xorg Editing

where's the menu that I have to type "mount /dev/cdrom0" into?

flamelab

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Re: Xorg Editing

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/05/2 … 804-guest/
(is a general way)

But since you are on terminal, /dev/sr0 (it represents the cdrom) is not automounted, mount it

mount /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom0 (if you have created /mnt/cdrom0). There, you will see the contents of Virtualbox additions ISO. And then continue.

Advice: As I have understood, you are trying to install Arch on a VM. I think it would be better to install it on a real partition, not a VM.

Last edited by flamelab (2009-09-05 00:56:13)

Haptic

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Re: Xorg Editing

Well it turns out I skipped a few drivers in the tutorial....So the freezing is fixed.  I'll just stick with vesa for the virtual installation.  I simply have to delete the "Device" Section with vesa and create my own with radeonhd to switch, right?

flamelab

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Re: Xorg Editing

RadeonHD isn't used inside a guest OS.Only the VBox driver.

Haptic

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Re: Xorg Editing

Sorry for not clarifying.  I meant the actual PC, not the Virtual.

flamelab

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Re: Xorg Editing

But we were talking about the VBox'ed installation all the time. The host machine, what's its problem ?

Haptic

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Re: Xorg Editing

There's no problem, I was just wondering if I were to directly install arch, how I would change it.