[arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

[Baho Utot]

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 The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions.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