Damir Perisa wrote: >On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:32, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > >>xorg.diff >> >> > >thanx.... no, not really helpful... too much difference... too much commenting >and not my prefered way of diff ;-) ... thanx anyway, > >- D > > > Here's my report - hopefully of use to someone somewhere:
Using Judd's devblog post as a guide, I installed xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev (for my synaptics pad) xf86-video-ati synaptics from [testing] xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi and xorg-fonts-type1 I changed the module, font, and rgb paths in xorg.conf, then tried a restart, initially by running slim, which said it couldn't find libX11. So putting slim to one side, I tried xdm - it couldn't find libSM. Figuring I could live without a gui login for a while, I tried startx - couldn't find libX11 or libXau. I checked over my pacman.log and the repos, and found that, because I had [testing] at the end of pacman.conf, as recommended by everyone everywhere, I had pulled in dummy libx11 and libsm packages from current, instead of the actual packages from testing. I also hadn't got libxau at all. So I installed those, and also upgraded cairo to the testing version, following a cairo error in the log, and tried again. slim and xdm still didn't work (more of that in a mo), but startx did, and my familiar xfce4 desktop appeared, and was mostly working. My keyboard wasn't working properly though - keymaps for the Windoze and Menu keys weren't there, and I couldn't do Ctrl+Alt+Fn to get to a console. I was still able to kill X with Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace, so I had a look at the keyboard section of xorg.conf, did a bit of googling, and then changed "XkbRules" from "xfree86" to "xorg". The keyboard was back to normal after a restart. So I'm just left with the slim and xdm issues for now. slim is my preference, and as it's a community package, I've posted about this on the tur-users ML. No response as yet - maybe a new upstream release is required, though. I've reported the xdm problem on Flyspray (#3707). startx is fine for the moment though, and I'd like to say many thanks to all the devs for an excellent job, on xorg and on Arch in general. While I'm at it, congrats on the final Noodle as well. :) Happy New Year from Ireland, Tom K. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
