Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM :
2011/7/4 D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com>
I just installed arch for the first time (trying it out since I am unhappy with the state of Kubuntu). I have, I think, followed the installation instructions carefully. Everything seemed OK until I tried to run X.
The cursor is offset from where it should be. If I move the mouse to the right, the cursor stops about 2/3 of the way across the screen and won't go any farther. If I move the mouse to the left, the cursor disappears off the left hand side of the screen and reappears on the right hand side. It stops moving to the left a short distance from the right border on the screen.
The display of windows on the screen looks fine; it's just the cursor that seems to be wrong.
1. I have tried two mice; both behave the same way. 2. I used wgetpaste as instructed at wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Graphical_User_Interface<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Graphical_User_Interface> : ~/.xinitrc does not exist /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist /var/log/Xorg.0.log is at paste.pocoo.org/show/428974 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old is at paste.pocoo.org/show/428976
Obviously, I need to get this resolved before proceeding any further with installing a desktop environment.
It seems you have an Intel graphics card and that the driver does not want to start.
Have you read the page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel ? In particular you need to install the package xf86-video-intel and you need to enable KMS to run X.
Yes, I have read that page. I don't know what part of it you are suggesting is important and which I have failed to follow. 1. xf86-video-intel *is* installed. 2. That page says "KMS is supported by Intel chipsets that use the i915 DRM driver and is now enabled by default as of kernel v2.6.32". Since the current arch kernel is 2.6.39, then it follows that KMS is already enabled. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR