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Hi all
After stumbling my way through an Arch install and getting my wireless to work, I've hit a brick wall. After installing X as per the instructions on the Arch X wiki page, I typed "startx", and my screen went blank. After turning off my laptop by holding down the power button and then turning it on again, whenever I try to boot into arch I get the blank screen again, after "Waiting for Udev events to be processed."
Can anyone shed any light on this problem?
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Hi all
After stumbling my way through an Arch install and getting my wireless to work, I've hit a brick wall. After installing X as per the instructions on the Arch X wiki page, I typed "startx", and my screen went blank. After turning off my laptop by holding down the power button and then turning it on again, whenever I try to boot into arch I get the blank screen again, after "Waiting for Udev events to be processed."
Can anyone shed any light on this problem?
We need way more info:
- what graphics card and video driver are you using,
- are you booting into console or X,
- are there any interesting errors / warning in the logs (kernel and xorg) - if so, post them.
I think Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-Del would be enough, no need to reset via the power button. Next time you can try to switch to a tty - e.g. tty1 and kill the X server.
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Oh right;
I'm booting into console, and I don't think I can access any logs because of the blank screen. I've tried to switch to a tty, but again, blank screen.
I'm using a laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card, as well as an onboard Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GPU.
I installed the latest fglrx driver, had the issue I described above, and then reinstalled and used the xf86-video-ati driver - same problem.
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You can try booting into single mode (append 's' to the kernel line in grub) or use a liveCD/USB. Try toggling KMS.
Are all ttys are blank or just tty1? Can you start X by "blindly" typing it in?
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All ttys are blank and I can't start X blindly. I can restart using ctrl+alt+del though, as you suggested.
Booting into single mode worked. The screen doesn't blank after the "Waiting for Udev..." line and after logging into console I can start X. What does this mean?
How do I toggle KMS?
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> How do I toggle KMS?
I meant that if you use KMS - disable it, and if you don't use it, enable it.
Now you can check the logs for any weird things.
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Right. OK, will do.
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I also have an ATI graphics card with xf86-video-ati driver and your problem looks like KMS. I also have that problem.
To disable KMS just put radeon.modeset=0 in the grub kernel line
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