DrCR wrote:
Awesome, to see you're up an running.
Didn't you have an Error11 when attempting to start X? Maybe that's my imagination. If not, how did you fix it? I'm currently having this problem myself.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
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and you have your screenshot:
http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/archlinux1-800...
Oops, sorry,
I see from the logs I forgot to move the screenshots over to the Archlinux server when I switched the router from the suse box to the archlinux box. They are on the webserver now.
DrCR, I pretty sure I had the Error11 message when I was struggling through getting things going (I think I has every error possible while I was making things hard on myself;-) As usual, I did just about everything I could to make it more difficult than needed. The other DR, AT and everyone else were really helpful in solving the problems and helping me pull my.. (get straightened out;-). What I should have done initially to get X/kde up and running was to: *Getting KDE Started the 1st Time* (1) Install the nvidia driver if you have an nvidia card, if you have an ATI card, just use the openSource 'radeon' driver. (2) If you are using nvidia, then run nvidia-xconfig to create a default /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if not, do not create an xorg.conf, just let X use its defaults. (3) So that you will have font support in X/KDE, as root, change directories to /usr/share/fonts and for each font subdirectory there run: mkfontscale <dirname> mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ <dirname> (Normal font directories include: 100dpi 75dpi TTF Type1 URW artwiz-fonts cyrillic encodings local misc truetype util) Note: you may not have all of these. You can do it in one shot with this (pasted in the command line): for in $(ls); do \ mkfontscale $i; \ mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ $i; \ done (4) Do not worry about creating an initial ~/.xinitrc and if a default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc exits move that file to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.sav to let X use its defaults to get you going. (You can come back later and tweak your ~/.xinitrc and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. (5) Make sure there are no lingering X or kdm processes running from any previous attempt to start X or kde: ps ax | grep -E X\|kdm If you have any processes like: /opt/kde/bin/kdm /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-Z7cAuH Kill them before trying to start KDE. (You can ignore the "kdmflush" processes) (6) Now it is time to try and start KDE. In my case I was working with KDE3, so the init script I called was: /etc/rc.d/kdm3 start I don't know exactly what the KDE4 init script is called, but I suspect it will be something like: /etc/rc.d/kdm or /etc/rc.d/kdm4. Now just see what happens and pay attention to any warnings (WW) or errors (EE) in Xorg.0.log after each attempt to start kde. (You may want to save the Xorg.0.log if you are changing things in your configuration as there is only 1 copy of the information kept (Xorg.0.log.old) and that is overwritten with each subsequent attempt to start kde. (7) Once you get kde started and the configuration straightened out, then just add "kdm3" or whatever the init script is for kde4 to the DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf. That's as far as I've gotten. I haven't yet gone back to build out /etc/xinit/xinitrc and ~/.xinitrc yet to add any customization, its working fine now. When I get around to 'rat-killing' I'll go back and see if anything is needed, but right now I'm still just trying to get up to speed on the rest of Arch. Good luck! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com