Can Anybody help this "display :0" problem I have? [SOLVED]

Question

Hello, I am very new to Arch (and only on Linux for a year).
I have 2 problems:
Problem #1). When messing around after my install, I'm not sure what I did... but now I have an error every time I boot up and log in. The error is this:
There already appears to be an X server running on display :0.
Should another display number by tried? Answering no will cause
GDM to attempt starting the server on :0 again. (You can change
consoles by pressing Ctrl-Alt-f7 to go to console 7. X servers
usually run on 7 or higher)
Now, I am able to click tty7 and run a regular desktop, and I am able to use tty1, tty2....for root...but I just would like to not have that error.
Problem #2). Well...after prob. #1... I got frustrated and tried to stop the problem by upgrading to the new testing xorg-server and xf86-video-intel... as well as a full pacman -Syu. (I know I shouldn't be using the Testing repo, but since I thought I was going to be doing another clean install, I figured I would give it a try and also see what the new Gnome looks before I scrapped this install)
...well, after doing a new "Xorg -configure", I was able to edit my /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that I got my screen working and my mouse able to move and tap, but I have lost the ability to scroll...and it had been working before Problem #1, and the new upgrades... so, instead of scrapping this install, I would really like to try and fix these 2 problems, because other than that, everything is working nicely.
This is my /etc/X11/corg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
Option "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
# Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "AUO"
ModelName "f0d"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "record"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
Load "dbe"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "49"
Option "RightEdge" "900"
Option "TopEdge" "73"
Option "BottomEdge" "666"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "200"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "24"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.40"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.80"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.024"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "CoastingSpeed" "5.00"
Option "FastTaps" "on"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
# Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
Any help would be cool, thanks,
-j.c.
Last edited by methuselah (2007-10-24 04:12:02)

Answer 1

Misfit138 wrote:I've been using GNU/Linux for a couple years, but only for one full year seriously. I am still learning and have oh so very much to learn. I understand how one could get frustrated, give up and reinstall. I did it quite a bit before I adopted the mindset to slow down and start absorbing some knowledge about how things work. I still have issues, and sometimes keeping the thing running is a challenge of itself for me. Anyway, when you are ready to come back and try again, the community will still be here to help. :)
Thank you for understanding... and guess what, I gave Archlinux a third attempt yesterday...and I have a fully working Arch Linux!!
After giving up after my second Arch attempt, I installed xubuntu 7.10 tribe5 and upgraded to the beta.
7.10 felt that it had gotten slower than 7.04 (probably because it's still being worked on)... or maybe I had seen how fast Arch was.
I liked the new look of xubuntu 7.10, and it was very easy to install and add all of my special hacks to make it faster (most of them from this sidux page: http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-3484-start-0.html ).
But even with my OpenDNS and everything else that I do from that page, as well as all of my Swiftfox about:config tweaks, I still felt that it was slower than Arch had been.
So then I started trying to install Compiz Fusion like the way I had it in feisty 7.04: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=4159
... but for some reason, the Compiz Fusion in the gutsy repos didn't work with xubuntu 7.10, and I couldn't find a gutsy repo like Trevino's repo for feisty...and yes, I guess I could of built it from source, but I just decide to give the Xfce4 Compositer a test run... and I found my xubuntu 7.10 crawling slower than it had been with Compiz Fusion on 7.04.
Then I decide to give Arch one more chance since there wasn't going to be a Trevino repo for little (and I didn't feel like building Compiz and all of the plugins from source)....plus, I figured now that I had learned how to properly install Arch, that if I gave it a moment after install, I would learn how to configure everything to work correctly.
And now for the success story.....
The first thing I did was to download and burn the newest 2007.08-2, then I did the regular base install, and then I took a chance to see if I could get the new Gnome and Xorg working off of a clean install, so I uncommented the testing repos before doing my first pacman -Syu... then I also installed the new xf86-video-intel driver that I had had problems with... and for my first time on Linux (one year now), I didn't install xfce4.
So, after editing my xorg.conf after Xorg --configure, everything (including scrolling) worked, well everything except for my Caps Lock key light, like everybody else on this very helpful page: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37670&p=1
So this is my working xorg.conf for my Intel 910GML celeron m HP pavilion dv4230us laptop:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
# Option "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "xtrap"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "vbe"
Load "synaptics"
# Load "GLcore"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
# Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "AUO"
ModelName "f0d"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
modes "1280x800"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "49"
Option "RightEdge" "900"
Option "TopEdge" "73"
Option "BottomEdge" "666"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "200"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "24"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.40"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.80"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.024"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "CoastingSpeed" "5.00"
Option "FastTaps" "on"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
# Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
So after getting my mouse to work properly, I had done a lot of research about OpenDNS and Arch, but I hadn't found an easy way to do it in any forum or google search... then, I found a way on my own that works perfectly for me.
What I did was I added the package called Wicd: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd for my BCM43XX wireless, and after using this Wireless guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … k_settings to configure my eht1, I then added a "Wired" profile to my Wicd.
...With my Wired Network Profile in Wicd called "OpenDNS", using the proper OpenDNS nameservers, all I have to do when I first boot up is connect my "OpenDNS" profile, and I am able to use OpenDNS and pass all of it's OpenDNS checks: http://www.opendns.com/welcome/
Now I haven't tried to install Compiz Fusion yet, and I almost don't need it except for the Shift Switcher and Emerald... so I might wait a while.
And to finish my long-winded success story, I would just say that the GDM issue was something I caused on my own, and couldn't correct on my own, and had nothing to do with Archlinux...and the new Xorg/ xf86 intel issue that I had was easily solved once I payed attention to making sure that the "Input Device" was correct for the Touchpad like on this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37670&p=1
As for, OpenDNS... I'm sure there are other way's to do it, but this way worked for me, and I found the solution on my own, so I'm sort of proud of that... and I'll be messing around with Compiz Fusion soon, but I'm not that worried about it.
Anyway, here is my new Archlinux Desktop using my own gtk-2.0 theme and custom icons:
Large View: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … ot-1-1.png
Large View: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161 … shot-2.png
Last edited by methuselah (2007-10-09 17:23:49)