Jet2k5

ok well nvm I got a bunch of new stuff, including internet working and xorg

the only thing now is the xorg config I'm having trouble with it so I'm wodering if I can just copy my Xfree config file onto there?

-Luis

Hello everyone,

Ok so finally I was able to install Arch on my computer. So far I just added it so LILO can boot it up with the help of tyme and cybrjackle.

Now the new thing I need to find out is what to install to finally boot into it!

Some of the things I have done already is,

pacman -Suy

Guess that updates all the programs, ( by the way I'm chroot'd in to arch )

and now I need to get my wireless or Internet working under arch, I have a linksys WPC11 card, and so far I have done,

 pacman -S wlan-ng26

so far I have no Idea what so over to do from here, as far as xorg and DE and WM to install or what to do, so I'm asking you guys to help me out, I'm triying to read some of the FAQ by wiki .

Thanks,

-Luis

I would try to download the rpm thrue urpmi,

urpmi mozilla-firefox

If you don't have sources get them from out FAQ section, I believe it's called " Solving urpmi dependensies " or something like that.

-Luis

lol took me a while to but it's much better looking now!

-Luis

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/soft...tunesystem.html

 

Here are some tips to tune your system.

 

Good luck

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Thanks for the link look very very good. Have you tried those tune ups your self? I would try but I'm scared I might bork my system again :( and I sure don't want that now that I have it running so cool and good. I'll try in a few weeks or so, hopefully this post won't be going anywhere

-Luis

I just compiled a kenel and the first time that I did it just made everything run better. But right now It's my second time and I'm not getting that performance I was getting before :( but ac_dispatcher is working hard I guess to make it work again....Or at least I think so ;).

I thought it would be harder but it's not it's quite simple if you know your way around Linux.

-Luis

That's obviously not good!!! at all

it has been quite a while since it has been down and I need to set up my sources!

lol don't worry I got Windows installed along with Partition Magic, so from here I'm going to do some custom partitioning just asking me for some partitions that I don't know about like,

/var

/usr

I thought those would be included in /.

-Luis

Doesn't matter I'm back on windows, thanks for the help.

-Luis

this is what I got from knoppix tho but I think this sis not what you are looking for,

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ls /usr/X11R6/bin
X            dga         mgpembed      twm            xfs         xrandr
XF86_3DLabs  dpsexec     mgpnet        ucs2any        xfsinfo     xrdb
XF86_8514    dpsinfo     mkcfm         uxterm         xgamma      xrefresh
XF86_AGX     editres     mkdirhier     viewres        xgc         xset
XF86_I128    fslsfonts   mkfontdir     wmaker         xhost       xsetmode
XF86_Mach32  fstobdf     mkfontscale   x11perf        xinit       xsetpointer
XF86_Mach64  gccmakedep  mkhtmlindex   x11perfcomp    xisdnload   xsetroot
XF86_Mach8   glxgears    mmapr         xauth          xkbbell     xsm
XF86_P9000   glxinfo     mmapw         xbiff          xkbcomp     xstdcmap
XF86_S3      gtf         oclock        xcalc          xkbevd      xtel
XF86_S3V     gv          pcitweak      xclipboard     xkbprint    xterm
XF86_SVGA    gxditview   pswrap        xclock         xkbvleds    xtrapchar
XF86_VGA16   iceauth     rdesktop      xcmsdb         xkbwatch    xtrapin
XF86_W32     ico         reconfig      xconsole       xkill       xtrapinfo
XFree86      imake       resize        xcursorgen     xlabed      xtrapout
Xmark        imaze       revpath       xcutsel        xload       xtrapproto
Xnest        ioport      rstart        xditview       xlogo       xtrapreset
appres       joycal      rstartd       xdm            xlsatoms    xtrapstats
atobm        listres     rstartd.real  xdpyinfo       xlsclients  xtv
bdftopcf     lndir       scanpci       xedit          xlsfonts    xvidtune
bdftruncate  luit        sessreg       xev            xmag        xvinfo
beforelight  makedepend  setxkbmap     xeyes          xman        xwd
bitmap       makeg       showfont      xf86cfg        xmessage    xwininfo
bmtoa        makepsres   showrgb       xf86config     xmkmf       xwintoppm
ccmakedep    makestrs    smproxy       xf86config-v3  xmodmap     xwud
chooser      mergelib    startx        xfd            xmonisdn    xzoom
cleanlinks   mgp         sxpm          xfindproxy     xon
cxpm         mgp2ps      texteroids    xfontsel       xprop

umm how would I mount a partition ? so that I can se what really is in my system?

and no I have not deleted the /usrOLD

-Luis

Ok this is what's wrong I tried what you said bvc and now I can't log into X or what ever

Using authority file /home/zero/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/zero/.Xauthority
Using uthority file /home/zero/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/zero/.Xauthority

Fatal server error: Cannot move old logfile " /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"

When reportitng a problem related to a server crash, please send the full report problems to XFree86@xfree86.org

giving up.

xinit:Connection refused ( errno 111 ): Unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process ( errno 3 ): Server error

Looks bad I'm on a live cd right now :(

-Luis

For mobility card Non on those drivers ever ever worked for me. Like I have said many many times what solved my problem is by taking the Drivers that came with MDK and c ompile them into the kernel. That fixed all my problems that I have ever ever had with any graphic related problems.

I have the Mobility M6 , and now it's runs a hell of a lot better than it did when I just used the modules.

-Luis

:unsure: really really lost now :P

I'm a n00b and I compiled !

resizing partitions is the most risky thing you can do to them. Backup!

 

me? Aside from using partition magic 8 to do it, I would drop to init 1

Copy /usr to the new location

cp -fR /usr /home

NOTE: cp will take a loOOOoooong time

 

Move /usr

mv -f /usr /usrOLD

 

Link the new /usr in /home to the proper location

ln -s /home/usr /usr

 

reboot to make sure all is well

 

Remove the OLD /usrOLD

rm -fR /usrOLD

 

use at your own risk :D

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Those are some grean instructions there bvc but I'm still lost I was thinking about doing it from a Live CD. Can you explain how to do it from there?

-Luis

I'm sorry for that I have no Idea how that came to be here is the real link,

Click here

I am positive that I put this link up, I'm now sure that some one was messing around with my post, because I did this last night and I checked the link and it worked.

-Luis

You don't really need to have it match your kernel I ran a 2.6.3-7mdk with a 2.6.3-16mdk kernel source.

As for the ATI I have had the same problem but after I fixed that problem, and it tells you on their website steps to fix it, I ran into more errors that not even the website ( ATI ) knew the answer to. So pretty much after I had answered all the questions it asks for installation ( about 40 ) It asked to reboot and when I did it messed up stuff with X.

So this was a while ago when I was a total newbie once I got dumped into console since X could not boot up I got so mad and I didn't know what to do. So I re-installed linux and I remember I insulted the guy who helped me. But then I noticed I had just made me look very very stupid.

So after that I gave up and just less than 4 days a go I compiled my own kernel everything worked great. I compiled the ATI drivers that the kernel uses into the kernel. After that everything else works just great. I went from 640 frames , from now to a staggering 3500 frames. Might seem crappy but I am running a Mobility M6 32mb. So for me it was just the greates thing that I have ever accomplished. And really the only solution that I have see to this.

-Luis

Why dont you do the easiest?

 

Resize /home to 20 GB and then resize / to take up all that extra space.

 

I think you need to umount the partitions before you can make any changes in them, so id recommend you to use a LiveCD with QTParted (=Partition Magic alike) included, i.e. knoppix.

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Thanks, that is what I had planned at first but some one told me that it's not possible. I have Knoppix right now. I just have to know how to use it or mount the partitions on it. If you can maybe explain it a little better than I'll be able to get this over and done with.

Thanks a lot.

-Luis

aargh, I want a faster computer :P I wanna install Gentoo!! but It would take days, and my mum isn't happy with that fact :P

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I found out by compiling my own kernel my computer got faster, I think it was the option of having the kernel set to use my P4. And also my ATI drivers if that has had anything to do with the speed. You should try to compile your kernel some time. It's fun, and it's well worth it.

-Luis

ahh! I feel honored!

Don't know what those things mean but coming from Steve they sure as heck sound wrong :P

-Luis

Hey sorry to hear that, I ran into the same problem little over a week ago, no on knew how to restore it so I had to re-install.

Right now I have a thread open to find out how to make more space on / . Our problem seems to be that /usr is with /.

Read the post on this Section ' Partition ' hopefully I will get some cool new tips on how to go about it. Hope to see this work for the both of us.

-Luis

Hello,

Well I'm going to do the same thing. But right now I'm going thrue some space on my HD issues. Here is the link from & written by the almighty Mod illogic-al,

Click here

If you have any problems post back I'll inform him about this thread so If you run into any problems then he will be able to help you with, since I have not tried it my self yet. Hope this helps,

-Luis

Is it that cartoon program? Where it's like you and a friend talking to each other and then what you type comes in little bubbles and you can animate all the cartoons etc? If that's it I haven't used something like that in over 3 years when I had my windows 98 machine. If so then I don't know such a thing for Linux, there probably is something out there like that.

-Luis