[arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

[Jan de Groot]

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 The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions.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.