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antony

Member

Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 43

xinit: connection to server lost

Hi all,

I'm trying to install Arch for the first time... probably I had to expect everything would work directly :-)

So, I've been stuck at the startx stage.  Basically, I followed the beginner's guide, installed the open-source radeon driver (graphics card: Radeon HD 3650), created an xorg.conf from Xorg --configure and copied .xinitrc from /etc/skel.
Now, both with startx and with xinit -- /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp, I get a black screen for a few seconds with a blinking cursor on the top left, then I fall bacl to the console with a seemingly innocuous message except for the last two lines:

xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down

The potentially relevant files (.xinitrc, xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old) are here:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/438407/
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/438408/
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/438409/
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/438410/

Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Antony

rowdog

Member

From: East Texas

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 118

Re: xinit: connection to server lost

You don't start a window manager so X is done running and exits. You need to start a window manager in .xinitrc.

Also, the open ATI driver doesn't need xorg.conf anymore unless you need specific tweaks. You can just delete xorg.conf.