X.ORG Broken... is it possible to fix!?
Hello everyone,
I am running a Slackware 10 box on my HP Compaq nc6000 laptop and I was nanometers away from having it exactly the way that I wanted it. I do, however, have a penchant for bleeding edge technology and ALSA was not working properly, so I decided to update with slapt-get and see if this would fix my alsa woes while upgrading me to the latest and greatest packages. Everything went well until the update completed and I rebooted. After I logged in I attempted to start X and was greeted with the following error: Code:
me@SlackTop:~$ startx |
Looks like you need to configure the keyboard in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
for example Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" # Option "XKbOptions" "" EndSection xorg.conf doesn't seem to understand 'Keyboard' |
does anyone know what the default driver option for Slackware is... like posting samples of x.org keyboard sections that would help. thanks.
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I just dealt with this problem last night, so I figured I'd register and reply.
Like tobyl said, the driver value needs to be changed from "Keyboard" to "kbd". That worked for me. I had to make this change after updating X.org via Swaret, and again in the conf generated by ATi's fglrxconfig. ATi's drivers still crash X though :(. |
hi,
sounds like you upgraded from xorg-6.7 to xorg-6.8. all you need to do is change 'driver " Keyboard" ' to ' driver "kbd" '. many people had that prob. and indeed: ati-drivers make my system freeze ( no ctrl-alt-F6 response ) but those drivers are very outdated. ( time for new ati drivers, but i don't think they care ...) egag |
yet another problem
ok, X now starts but I get another error:
Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. I updated kde via slapt-get too, anything else I need to edit to fix this problem? |
If you updated recently be sure you installed libidn package (it was added, wasn't there before).
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yup... that fixed it, thanks for all the help :D
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I hate to keep beating this drum, but always read the changelogs. Swaret and slapt-get are not perfect tools. BOth of your problems were explained in the changelogs.
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sorry, searched X.org wiki readme's and howto's... found no information on either subject, that's why I turn to the excellent user-supported communities... seesh :rolleyes:
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Try slackware's changelog : ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../ChangeLog.txt
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Elec, I don't think he was bringing it up to down you or anything. He was just giving you and the rest of us non-changelog reading fools some sound advice to save us time and headaches later. :)
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To start off congrats on fixing the problem Electronique. Now after editing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to reflect the keyboard changes I find that I have the same exact issue that you were having with the libidn problem.
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slapt-get --search libidn
if it is not installed it will say: Code:
linidn 0.5.8-i486-1 [inst=no]: libidn (GNU Internationalized Domain Name Library) and it will download it and install it |
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