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I had Arch installed a couple weeks back and liked it a lot. Then one day 'startx' began giving me nothing but a black screen. I tried to fix it but could not. I completely erased my Arch partition.
Now I try again. But I cannot even get that far. I again follow the beginner's guide but start off trying for the proprietary ATI drivers like I ended up with before.
Can't get the eduardo repo to work like I did before, so I go to AUR to get the Catalyst and utils packages... 9.8 is outdated? I know 9.9 is out but there's no 9.9 on the AUR...
Anyway I get both of those install them it does not work, complains about fglrx, cannot even do the Xorg configure (keeps giving me error 11).
So I set out to just get something that works with xf86-video-radeonhd. This installs and I do the Xorg configure and it works. But doing 'startx' just gives me the same black screen as I am used to... but at least this time I am able to Ctrl+Alt+F1 out of it. I see that it cannot load ati-dri, which I have tried many steps to fix with no luck. I even linked some file and cannot get over the idea that I should now 'un' link it but do not know how.
In short, I think I have messed up everything here. This wasn't anywhere near this hard the first time. I spent over 3hrs yesterday in anticipation just downloading Xorg and the ATI drivers, my internet is VERY slow... and now this!
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Can you post your Xorg log and xorg.conf?
Is ati-dri installed? (pacman -Qs ati-dri)
Website: andrwe.org
Repository: repo.andrwe.org/<archtiecture>
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Remove everything, install or
xf86-video-ati-git and ati-dri
or
catalyst catalyst-utils
follow the guide on wiki.archlinux.org
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Got it to work... with proprietary drivers. Not sure how. Deleting the /etc/ati/? seemed to help, and some combination of adding/removing ati-dri but not the git.
Any idea why openbox AND fluxbox both freeze the whole system when I add/replace them in .xinitrc? awesome and icewm work fine.
EDIT got it, one must use exec openbox-session
Last edited by andrewzorn (2009-09-13 16:39:47)
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