[arch-general] Xorg doesn't start

[Jakub Klinkovský]

On 01.03.14 at 11:17, arno wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your reply
> 
> > ArchWiki says [1]:
> >   Catalyst does not support Xorg Server 1.15, check out #Xorg repositories and
> >   pick up xorg repository that you would like to use.
> 
> Apparently, the new catalyst (14.1) works fine with Xorg 1.15
> But anyway:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 08:11:07PM +0100, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
> > On 01.03.14 at 10:35, arno wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've installed xf86-video-ati, xorg-xserver and xorg-xinit.
> > > But when I try to run startx, xorg doesn't start, and I get a fatal error: no screens found. Here is the full Xorg log:
> > > http://renevier.net/tmp/Xorg.0.log.txt
> 
> I *tried* first to use the xf86-video-ati, and it didn't work. I only
> tried afterwards to use catalyst.
> 
> Neither catalyst nor xf86-video-ati work.

I've also noticed in the log that you also have an Intel card. Linux 3.12
introduced some changes to automatic GPU switching and power management [1],
maybe this is the problem. Which kernel do you have installed and which kernel
is on the live system where 'lspci' works?

[1]: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges#head-f95c198f6fdc7defe36f470dc8369cf0e16898df

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jlk
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