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FS#1466 - xorg dumps back to the terminal

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Justin Smithies (justinsmithies) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 18:03 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Saturday, 25 September 2004, 18:24 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Xorg dumps me back to the terminal using a conf settings that i have used for years with various distros including until it broke arch.
i type startx and i briefly see the cursor then im dumped back to the terminal but i get no (EE) errors etc.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 05:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Saturday, 18 September 2004, 01:04 GMT
nothing in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 18 September 2004, 06:41 GMT
perhaps the keyboard error
looks at this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6737

or try to rerun xorgcfg -textmode
Comment by Steven Van Impe (stevenvanimpe) - Sunday, 26 September 2004, 08:04 GMT
I had a similar problem (the keyboard error) with a fresh arch install.
Just reregenerate the config file with either X -configure of xorgconfig, fill in the blanks or add details and all is well.

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