On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there no way other than installing gdm. It installs pulseaudio and that > messes everything on my system. Happened the last time. Don't want to go > through it again. "pacman -S gdm" play around "pacman -Rsc gdm" Should get you back where you started. There might be another way to figure out what's wrong, but I don't know what to suggest. -t