[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes

[Angel Velásquez]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> http://archlinux.org/news/424/
>
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging


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