Console Display Manager doesn't initiate

CDM crashes when I log into my username. Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything that conflicts with cdm? I don't have another login manager installed.
Edited:
I tried reinstalling and checking out the pkgbuild. Nothing seems to be out of place.
Edited:
I tried the git version and still nothing...
Here are some of my files
xinitrc:
http://pastebin.com/WmGW91kJ
cdmrc:
http://pastebin.com/VUwW4g3n
initab:
http://pastebin.com/mNXcTNDL
grep -E '\((WW|EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log :
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 1786.099] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 1786.099] (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 1786.099] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 1786.099] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 1786.101] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 1787.300] (EE) Logitech G9 Laser Mouse: failed to initialize for relative axes
Edited:
Guess I need to remove CDM. Here is a list of all my installed programs. Just to let you know, I've recently deleted CDM and installed Slim.
Pacman -Q
http://pastebin.com/mQDEaMXz
Xorg.conf:
http://pastebin.com/nYBFxLcx
Last edited by Oblitus (2011-01-29 10:19:50)

brittyazel: yes I did
I disabled intel GPU in BIOS and X wasn't able to start. Here is log: http://pastebin.com/jJqksmyS. I think there may be something wrong with my nvidia card. Before arch I used bbswitch to turn it off during startup so I don't even know if it was working earlier or not.
I'm going to try bbswitch and see what happens.
[Edit]
So I tried two ways to turn off dedicated card: acpi_call as it is described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hy … screte_GPU and bumblebee with bbswitch https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee. There was some problems with acpi_call but bumblebee seems to work well and my nvidia GPU is turned of by bbswitch module during startup, but display manager still doesn't show up. Now I'm absolutely clueless.
Last edited by jwrona (2014-10-29 20:28:37)

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