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This is a copy of my topic on Arch Forums.. But since nobody seems to have the answer over there I'm giving LQ a try..
Hi. Just got my Acer Aspire 1410 and decided to install Arch like on my previous laptop and this time I decided to use GNOME as desktop environment. Well.. It's working (writing from Epiphany right now), but when I start GDM nothing happens, it just starts X (and displays a cursor in the middle) and then freezes and does nothing.. But if I switch to e.g. tty1 and then back it loads instantly and I can log in.. Same thing happens when I log in, it freezes and I have to switch to tty1 and back before anything happens. It's kind of annoying and I don't know how to fix it..?
BTW.. Used Ubuntu on this machine for at day or two before going back to Arch, and nothing like this ever happened in GDM.
KDE/KDM works fine.
- Niels
/Edit: Same thing happens when using SLiM as login manager (SLiM loads fine but when logging in (exec gnome-session) nothing happens until I switch to tty1 and back)
Btw.. I have also been trying Ubuntu and Fedora on this machine.. Both with the same version of GNOME (2.28) and without having this problem....
Last edited by Nielssonnich; 01-20-2010 at 11:11 AM.
what does your /etc/inittab look like? does it also happen if you use startx? what's in your .xinitrc? what video driver and window manager are you using? and also, if this happens with startx, do you see any interesting messages in tty1?
$ cat /etc/inittab
#
# /etc/inittab
#
# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:5:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null
# End of file
(almost default.. since I used the DAEMONS-array in rc.conf to start GDM, and now use it to start SLiM)
And my .xinitrc says "exec ck-launch-session startlxde" since I've been using SLiM + LXDE + Compiz for the last couple of days (without any problems...), btw as far as I know GDM doesn't use .xinitrc... but I may be wrong. Video driver is xf86-video-intel, and seems to be working fine since I can run Compiz without problems.
When I ran GNOME with startx it didn't seem to spit out anything unusual, it just resumed loading when I switched back to tty1.
It's almost been a week since I last tried, but I will run some more tests and return with the results.
here is the wiki to start display managers at boot.
Because (as I wrote) I'm not using inittab to start my display manager, but instead the DAEMONS-array in rc.conf. I also tried the inittab-method, but that made no difference at all.
This is a copy of my topic on Arch Forums.. But since nobody seems to have the answer over there I'm giving LQ a try..
Hi. Just got my Acer Aspire 1410 and decided to install Arch like on my previous laptop and this time I decided to use GNOME as desktop environment. Well.. It's working (writing from Epiphany right now), but when I start GDM nothing happens, it just starts X (and displays a cursor in the middle) and then freezes and does nothing.. But if I switch to e.g. tty1 and then back it loads instantly and I can log in.. Same thing happens when I log in, it freezes and I have to switch to tty1 and back before anything happens. It's kind of annoying and I don't know how to fix it..?
BTW.. Used Ubuntu on this machine for at day or two before going back to Arch, and nothing like this ever happened in GDM.
KDE/KDM works fine.
- Niels
/Edit: Same thing happens when using SLiM as login manager (SLiM loads fine but when logging in (exec gnome-session) nothing happens until I switch to tty1 and back)
Btw.. I have also been trying Ubuntu and Fedora on this machine.. Both with the same version of GNOME (2.28) and without having this problem....
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