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Toadsworth

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Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 18

[SOLVED]Problem with X

Hi, completely new to Arch here. I'm trying to follow the Beginner's guide exactly, but I seem to get the black screen with two white dots at the top. I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't find out where.

I am told to use wgetpaste, so here's my files:
~/.xinitrc | http://paste.pocoo.org/show/183950/
/etc/X11/xorg.conf | http://paste.pocoo.org/show/183952/
/var/log/Xorg.0.log | http://paste.pocoo.org/show/183953/
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old | http://paste.pocoo.org/show/183954/

Thanks in advance, I'm quite lost.

Last edited by Toadsworth (2010-02-28 20:00:44)

panuh

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From: X :ɯoɹℲ

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 144

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

Have you tried starting without an xorg.conf?

Toadsworth

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Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

Yes, I got the same result.

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

Did you try with nomodeset on the kernel line?

Toadsworth

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Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

Did you try with nomodeset on the kernel line?

No, could you go into further detail?

panuh

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From: X :ɯoɹℲ

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 144

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

I see you're running vesa as a driver. Have you installed the intel driver?

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel

If not, install it and try running without xorg.conf again. Otherwise you will have to put it in xorg.conf of which I don't know how to do it the right way for now.

EDIT: This could help, too http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel
It also helps how to enable KMS on older Kernel versions. Nomodeset will have to be added in Grub like the modeset setting I guess.

Last edited by panuh (2010-02-28 19:27:14)

Toadsworth

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Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

I see you're running vesa as a driver. Have you installed the intel driver?

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel

If not, install it and try running without xorg.conf again. Otherwise you will have to put it in xorg.conf of which I don't know how to do it the right way for now.

EDIT: This could help, too http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel
It also helps how to enable KMS on older Kernel versions. Nomodeset will have to be added in Grub like the modeset setting I guess.

Thanks bro.

panuh

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From: X :ɯoɹℲ

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 144

Re: [SOLVED]Problem with X

HAHA XD

Thanks back. Made me laugh.