So I am guessing you have a new problem on hand, you're able to start X, but your mouse and keyboard are not working because the hal daemon is not started, correct?

Since I am using a WM and no filemanager, hal is not so useful. This is how I setted-up X on my EeePC, which is the exact same model as yours (although I don't believe that matters):

$ pacman -Sy xorg-server xorg-xinit xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-intel
$ mv /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 ~
$ pacman -Rd hal
$ mv ~/libhal.so.1 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1

And of course, to make the keyboard and mouse work, I appended/inserted the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
         Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

It's all described in the wiki below.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#I_don.27t_want_this_crap.2C_how_do_I_turn_it_off.3F

If you happen to accidentally delete /usr/lib/libhal.so.1, I was able to successfully use another file in /usr/lib in place of /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 such as /usr/lib/libz.so.1. If you try to do "touch /usr/lib/libhal.so.1", it will complain about it not being the right size, and then when you do make it large enough (I think I had 4,744 lines of "I love kittens." to be around the same size as the original file just for fun - I was bored), it is not the correct ELF header, la la la, I fooled around with it a lot, haha.

Hopefully that helps. :)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ricardo Hernandez <ricardoh26@gmail.com> wrote:
I "solved" the problem...really i found that this problem is not fatal. My bad was that i didn't start HAL and the server didn't respond to any commands. The error stil appears so any suggestion is welcome.

In one try i "harcoded" the MTRR values, that Xorg show in the error, in /proc/mtrr. And the error disappear only one time when i start X, but the change is not permanent because Xorg rewrite that file

2009/2/10 Andrew Przepioski <aprz@ymail.com>

I was able to produce a very smilar error message by removing xterm.


xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "xterm" in PATH

Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path.

waiting for X server to shutdown error setting MTRR (base = 0xc0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22).
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From: Ricardo Hernandez <ricardoh26@gmail.com>
To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org>
Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 3:45:42 PM
Subject: [arch-general] Xorg MTRR error in ASUS eee pc 900ha

Hi , i have a problem with starting Xorg in an asus EEE PC 900HA (solid hardrive). It has intel 945gme for video chipset and i use xf86-video-intel driver

i start xorg with xinit and no WM or DE in xinitrc, only the default xterm. When i type xinit the screen flick and the server suddenly shutdown and appears this error:

waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0x0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)

I try to found the solution but had not luck.

Xorg.0.log don't show anything special, at least nothing with (EE) error

Thanks in advance