On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux. > > Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. > I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted. > > Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to > install alsa which when fine. > > Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. > then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. > X started and gave me the X cursor. > > The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the > <Backspace> trick. > ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to > gain control of the system. > > I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine > with KDEMOD. > > Has any one experienced this? > > Any one with some pointers/Help? http://archlinux.org/news/424/