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pistol-mcgee

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From: WA State

Registered: 2010-02-08

Posts: 12

[Solved] Intel 82845G and X not working

I have this old laptop that id like to get working again as something to use at my other home.

Its a Dell Inspiron 1100, Old as hell, slow as hell so first thing that came to mind was Arch.

ive gotten through the setup up until i got to getting X working, and in the beginners guide it tells me to use xf86-video-intel-legacy. Which apparently isnt in the repo's anymore. Ive tried vesa and intel, both have failed. X acts like it wants to start but i get a blank black screen with nothing on it.

Anyone know what i can do to at least get X working properly?

Im using Xorg-server 1.8.1.902 with kernel 2.6.34-ARCH i686

Last edited by pistol-mcgee (2010-07-15 00:58:31)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Intel 82845G and X not working

> i get a blank black screen with nothing on it
Maybe it's just a misconfiguration.
Post your configs: rc.conf, xorg.conf if you have any (you don't need it w/ xorg 1.8), udev rules, .xinitrc,  'pacman -Qs xf86'.
Maybe you can make it work w/ intel drivers, but it will crash from time to time because your card is not supported.

pistol-mcgee

Member

From: WA State

Registered: 2010-02-08

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Intel 82845G and X not working

A little tinkering when your not mad goes a long ways i guess..

I removed the vesa driver, still didnt work. then i realised i was still logged in as root and then i logged in as my regular user and it worked fine with intel.

i feel stupid now. just a stupid mistake i overlooked

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Intel 82845G and X not working

> just a stupid mistake i overlooked
That's what I thought.

If you're all set, just mark the thread [solved].