On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman > -Syu to fetch the latest updates. > > I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg > > Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg > > I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new > > Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > X started with the "X" in the screen at which it froze the machine > requiring a hard reset (microsoft reset) > > Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well. > > Everytime I install X I have this problem, with the newer versions. > > What am I missing when I install? > > The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions. > > Can someone list the steps needed to install successfully? > > Thank you Be sure to have hal running. The latest version from testing will wait forever for a hal instance to connect to when input hotplugging is enabled.
