[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at 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?

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