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_th... 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 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

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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). ________________________________ From: Ricardo Hernandez To: General Discusson about Arch Linux 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

Thanks for the reply, indeed i'm trying xmonad so HAL is really to much for what i need, although that's not really a problem persee, i started hal and the mouse and keyboard works, so X works too. My question now is why the MTRR error still appears 2009/2/10 kludge

if you don't intend to use hal at all, i posted this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61697

on the forums detailing how to rebuild xorg-xserver without it as a dependency. that way you can remove the hal package and still run x. it doesn't leave an orphaned libhal.so.1 floating around on your system.

h.t.h.

-kludge

Andrew Przepioski wrote:

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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_th...

...

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 mailto: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 mailto: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). ________________________________ From: Ricardo Hernandez mailto:ricardoh26@gmail.com> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux mailto: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