How to install Xorg in Arch Linux? I am writing this from the command-line Links browser.

Use links browser in one virtual terminal to read the Arch Beginners Guide while you do the X install and configuration in a second virtual terminal.

You should really read the beginner's guide, it answers most of your queries. Else you will just end up creating thread for everything.

EDIT: You can find an easy version of the install guide I wrote in my sig.

The Arch linux beginners guide covers this, and covers it very well. I highly suggest you RTFM and STFW before you ask a question.

If you encounter errors, post information from the Xorg log, configuration file, lspci and of course the error itself.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...p_2:_Install_X

The Arch Linux Beginner's Guide is excellent and here's another tutorial worth giving a looksee:

http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/in...howtopic=27596

Thanks for sharing. It is nice to see the tutorial posted outside of BATL

It's a good tut. It should be spread around.

Make sure you use the current version of the beginners guide. The version that was current when I installed showed two methods to test X. Since I was going sequentially through the guide I used the first method. It resulted in nothing but a black screen on all 4 of the computers I installed on. I struggled for a long time before someone recommended that I use the xterm method for testing. Even though the guide covered that potential problem, I didn't move on to the second method, which worked every time.

Since then it looks like they modified the guide to direct you to the xterm method from the start. I don't know what the printed version says because I don't have one.

Read archlinux beginner's guide/wiki.

I installed X but the keyboard and mouse didn't work in it.

I decided to give Slackware another try (because I really liked it except for package management), maybe learning how to deal with the no-dependency package manager or researching third-party package managers for Slackware.

You have to install the drivers

Example from my laptop:
pacman -Q|grep xf86 ##partial listing
xf86-input-evdev 2.3.2-1
xf86-input-keyboard 1.4.0-1
xf86-input-mouse 1.5.0-1
xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.1-1

With no touch pad, you don't need synaptics

I might try that on another computer some time.

Why did you not try to keep going?
Slackware is not a very good representation of KISS unless you do the advanced install and nitpick it down to a functionally nice system for yourself.
Your choice...Good luck with Slack.
Please close the thread if your issue was resolved.

Have a try.

I understand your pain. it took me around 3-4tries before I could set up my first Arch install. And back then the wiki didn't have as much detailed information.