[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux. Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted. Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine. Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor. The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system. I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD. Has any one experienced this? Any one with some pointers/Help?
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help?
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 Arch Linux Trusted User
Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help? http://archlinux.org/news/424/
As the others indicated, X now uses hotplugging. So you're probably failing because either you don't have the evdev driver loaded and/or you don't have the hal service running. So add "evdev" to your modules list in rc.conf, and "hal" to your daemons list. HTH, DR
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then
He could also add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection Hasn't this been mentioned all over the place? -Andrew --- On Tue, 12/23/08, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote: From: David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes To: "General Discusson about Arch Linux" <arch-general@archlinux.org> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 6:49 PM Angel Velásquez wrote: proceeded to
install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help? http://archlinux.org/news/424/
As the others indicated, X now uses hotplugging. So you're probably failing because either you don't have the evdev driver loaded and/or you don't have the hal service running. So add "evdev" to your modules list in rc.conf, and "hal" to your daemons list. HTH, DR
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 5:10:33 pm Andrew Przepioski wrote:
He could also add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection
Hasn't this been mentioned all over the place?
-Andrew
--- On Tue, 12/23/08, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote: From: David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes To: "General Discusson about Arch Linux" <arch-general@archlinux.org> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 6:49 PM
Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin
<aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot
<baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install,
rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then
proceeded to
install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X
with the
<Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft
Windows button" to
gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install
runs fine
with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help?
As the others indicated, X now uses hotplugging. So you're probably failing because either you don't have the evdev driver loaded and/or you don't have the hal service running. So add "evdev" to your modules list in rc.conf, and "hal" to your daemons list.
HTH,
DR
I do have evdev and hal runnning. I had a look at the Xorg wiki page and I tried setting it up with hwd -xa That worked. I am going to diff the configuration from hwd and Xorg -configure to see what is different. I had been following the beginners Guide from the wiki. Thanks everyone for your help
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Aaron Griffin
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Andrew Przepioski
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Angel Velásquez
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Baho Utot
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David Rosenstrauch