So I am guessing you have a new problem on hand, you're able to start X, but your mouse and keyboard are not working because the hal daemon is not started, correct?
Since I am using a WM and no filemanager, hal is not so useful. This is how I setted-up X on my EeePC, which is the exact same model as yours (although I don't believe that matters): $ pacman -Sy xorg-server xorg-xinit xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-intel $ mv /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 ~ $ pacman -Rd hal $ mv ~/libhal.so.1 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 And of course, to make the keyboard and mouse work, I appended/inserted the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection It's all described in the wiki below. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#I_don.27t_want_this_crap.2C_how_do_I_turn_it_off.3F If you happen to accidentally delete /usr/lib/libhal.so.1, I was able to successfully use another file in /usr/lib in place of /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 such as /usr/lib/libz.so.1. If you try to do "touch /usr/lib/libhal.so.1", it will complain about it not being the right size, and then when you do make it large enough (I think I had 4,744 lines of "I love kittens." to be around the same size as the original file just for fun - I was bored), it is not the correct ELF header, la la la, I fooled around with it a lot, haha. Hopefully that helps. :) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ricardo Hernandez <ricardo...@gmail.com>wrote: > I "solved" the problem...really i found that this problem is not fatal. My > bad was that i didn't start HAL and the server didn't respond to any > commands. The error stil appears so any suggestion is welcome. > > In one try i "harcoded" the MTRR values, that Xorg show in the error, in > /proc/mtrr. And the error disappear only one time when i start X, but the > change is not permanent because Xorg rewrite that file > > 2009/2/10 Andrew Przepioski <a...@ymail.com> > >> >> I was able to produce a very smilar error message by removing xterm. >> >> >> xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "xterm" in >> PATH >> >> Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin is in >> your path. >> >> waiting for X server to shutdown error setting MTRR (base = 0xc0000000, >> size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22). >> ________________________________ >> From: Ricardo Hernandez <ricardo...@gmail.com> >> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> >> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 3:45:42 PM >> Subject: [arch-general] Xorg MTRR error in ASUS eee pc 900ha >> >> Hi , i have a problem with starting Xorg in an asus EEE PC 900HA (solid >> hardrive). It has intel 945gme for video chipset and i use xf86-video-intel >> driver >> >> i start xorg with xinit and no WM or DE in xinitrc, only the default >> xterm. When i type xinit the screen flick and the server suddenly shutdown >> and appears this error: >> >> waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0x0000000, >> size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) >> >> I try to found the solution but had not luck. >> >> Xorg.0.log don't show anything special, at least nothing with (EE) error >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> >> >