[arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos
I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates. I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new X started with the "X" in the screen at which it froze the machine requiring a hard reset (microsoft reset) Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well. Everytime I install X I have this problem, with the newer versions. What am I missing when I install? The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions. Can someone list the steps needed to install successfully? Thank you
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:
I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates.
I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg
Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg
I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new
Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
X started with the "X" in the screen at which it froze the machine requiring a hard reset (microsoft reset)
Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well.
Everytime I install X I have this problem, with the newer versions.
What am I missing when I install?
The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions.
Can someone list the steps needed to install successfully?
Thank you
Be sure to have hal running. The latest version from testing will wait forever for a hal instance to connect to when input hotplugging is enabled.
Jan de Groot wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:
I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates.
I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg
Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg
I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new
Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
X started with the "X" in the screen at which it froze the machine requiring a hard reset (microsoft reset)
Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well.
Everytime I install X I have this problem, with the newer versions.
What am I missing when I install?
The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions.
Can someone list the steps needed to install successfully?
Thank you
Be sure to have hal running. The latest version from testing will wait forever for a hal instance to connect to when input hotplugging is enabled.
Ok i will see if that is what is going on. Is there a way to kill X if hal is not running other than a hard reset ? I am running jfs but I rather not test jfs ability to recover after a hard reset :)
Baho Utot wrote:
Ok i will see if that is what is going on.
Is there a way to kill X if hal is not running other than a hard reset ?
I am running jfs but I rather not test jfs ability to recover after a hard reset :)
Enable sysrq magic kernel.sysrq = 1 @ /etc/sysctl.conf Then can do a atlgr+sysrq+r (raw keyboard) or +k (SAK kill all programs on current vt) and then switch to console (ctrl+alt+f1) and kill X More info at http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
Baho Utot wrote:
Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well.
How do you know if it locked?
Jakub Schmidtke wrote:
Baho Utot wrote:
Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well.
How do you know if it locked?
A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never showed up. <cntrl><backspace> was ignored as was <cntrl><alt>Fx
Baho Utot wrote:
A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never showed up. <cntrl><backspace> was ignored as was <cntrl><alt>Fx
So if X didn't see the keyboard or mouse it would be the same? As Jan wrote, check if hal is running. And add Option "DontZap" "false" to Section "ServerFlags" in your xorg.conf, without that ctrl-alt-backspace won't work at all in xorg-server
= 1.6.0.
Baho Utot wrote:
Jakub Schmidtke wrote:
How do you know if it locked?
A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never showed up. <cntrl><backspace> was ignored as was <cntrl><alt>Fx
It does sound like you didn't include hal in the daemons array. It happens to me almost every time I install Arch, keep forgetting it. The symptoms are exactly the same. Hotplugging enabled and no hal = no keyboard and mouse. -- HTML e-mail is evil. Go plain text.
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Baho Utot
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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Jakub Schmidtke
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Jan de Groot
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Paulo Santos