Need help with Arch installation

Rockem · 09-08-2009, 03:05 AM

Hello,

yesterday I installed arch for the first time
after installation I did:

pacman -Syu

all went well
then I did

pacman -S kde

whats weird is that in the middle of downloading it stopped
and running that command again didn't work,
only after I change the mirror twice, ti worked again
why is that ?

now,
after all is installed I tried running kdm
but nothing happened.
how do I run kde ?

thanx
Eli

Boomhauer · 09-09-2009, 01:01 AM

have you added kdm to your daemons in /etc/rc.conf?
im not sure about kdm, but with gdm, hal has to be started before gdm in order for it to work (by putting hal before gdm in the daemons.)

~sHyLoCk~ · 09-11-2009, 06:58 AM

No need to add kdm to your daemons. Just edit your /etc/inittab and remove the comment from id5 and put a comment in id3 . Now scroll all the way down and comment in xdm and comment out kdm. Reboot. Kdm should launch now automatically in runlevel 5.

Rockem · 09-12-2009, 05:09 AM

thanx

but actually the problem was
that I didn't installed xorg
and that I have to run hal before X
(or put it in rc.conf)

Meson · 09-12-2009, 06:40 PM

You don't HAVE to run hal before xorg, you just need to if you want to avoid having to configure a xorg.conf. (Which you tend to have to anyway if you have an nvidia card).

~sHyLoCk~ · 09-13-2009, 10:00 AM

I run dbus and hal. This help me when I use thunar. Or else I face a lot of problems with USB mounting.