Newbie consulting about migration to Arch Linux from Ubuntu

I am using Ubuntu until I find Arch Linux, and I feel I quite agree with its principle of simplicity. I am considering a migration to Arch Linux.
The two major aspects I am thinking over are NTFS support and Chinese support.
As for NTFS, I need a system which has the capability to both read and write NTFS partitions, and stability is quite important for me. I cannot afford any data loss! With Ubuntu, I have never suffered a data loss from NTFS partitions.
As for Chinese, I do not care about the UI language. Usually I use US English. But I need the system to display Chinese and allow me to input Chinese.
Does Arch Linux meet my requirements? Or is it possible to configure it to have those capabilities?
Thank you! And sorry for my poor English.

Runiq wrote:
ntfs-3g takes care of NTFS support. It's quite stable here, and I reckon Ubuntu uses it as well.
From my experiences with writing Japanese, I'd say that Arch is definitely able display Chinese as well. Writing chinese Characters shouldn't be that difficult either, given the fact that all Linux packages are basically the same. It's also possible to display and write Chinese characters in a console.
As for stability, I never had any problems, though it's in rare cases necessary to refer to the homepage before updating system-critical packages. I'd also update at least once a week if I were you.
Thank you!
The stability I stated mainly refers to the stability of ntfs-3g.

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Migration to Arch Linux without extra partition requirement

Hello every body.
I'm currently making somes linux migration distribution, which means, installing on the current root partition Arch Linux and then having the possibility to switch from one to the other one just like you would have 2 distros on separate partitions. As you can imagine it's a interesting challenge. For me it is a must since I do not have any disk free needer want to create any new partitions. Moreover, the all process is possible to be done remotetly.
They is an available detail explaination how I proceed at http://kiao.no-ip.info/depot/arch.
Just be aware it is continuously updated as I'm doing the migration.
Any comment are welcome
Thierry
Last edited by kiao (2007-07-10 12:26:30)

Have you looked at the wiki for installing the arch32 bit enviornment on arch64 ?
I think it's basically a decription of what your wanting to do. Even though it was written for just adding a minimal 32 bit install within arch 64, you could use the steps to install a complete sytem within another.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … bit_system

Installing Arch Linux from Arch Linux .

Is there a form to install the base system from Arch Linux? I have Arch Linux I686 and a partition with free space. Maybe in a virtual box and then copying to the partition?

i put X84_64 in /etc/pacman.conf and pacstrap dowload the correct x86_64 files BUT. When the programs are installing pacman calls execv and there is a arch imcopatibility see:
# mnt pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
==> Creating install root at /mnt
==> Installing packages to /mnt
:: Sincronizando las bases de datos de paquetes...
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extra 1440,5 KiB 199K/s 00:07 [#####################################################################] 100%
community 1885,8 KiB 153K/s 00:12 [#####################################################################] 100%
:: Hay 52 miembros en el grupo base:
:: Repositorio core
1) bash 2) bzip2 3) coreutils 4) cronie 5) cryptsetup 6) device-mapper 7) dhcpcd 8) diffutils 9) e2fsprogs 10) file 11) filesystem 12) findutils 13) gawk 14) gcc-libs
15) gettext 16) glibc 17) grep 18) gzip 19) heirloom-mailx 20) inetutils 21) iproute2 22) iputils 23) jfsutils 24) less 25) licenses 26) linux 27) logrotate 28) lvm2
29) man-db 30) man-pages 31) mdadm 32) nano 33) netcfg 34) pacman 35) pciutils 36) pcmciautils 37) perl 38) ppp 39) procps-ng 40) psmisc 41) reiserfsprogs 42) sed 43) shadow
44) sysfsutils 45) systemd-sysvcompat 46) tar 47) texinfo 48) usbutils 49) util-linux 50) vi 51) which 52) xfsprogs
Introduzca una selección (por defecto=todos):
:: Hay 14 miembros en el grupo base-devel:
:: Repositorio core
1) autoconf 2) automake 3) binutils 4) bison 5) fakeroot 6) flex 7) gawk 8) gcc 9) gettext 10) libtool 11) m4 12) make 13) patch 14) pkg-config
Introduzca una selección (por defecto=todos):
atención: saltando el objetivo: gawk
atención: saltando el objetivo: gettext
resolviendo dependencias...
atención: bucle de dependencias detectado:
atención: filesystem será instalado antes que su dependencia systemd
verificando conflictos...
Objetivos (129): acl-2.2.51-2 archlinux-keyring-20130114-1 attr-2.4.46-2 ca-certificates-20121105-1 cloog-0.18.0-1 cracklib-2.8.19-1 curl-7.28.1-1 db-5.3.21-1 dbus-1.6.8-6
dirmngr-1.1.0-4 expat-2.1.0-1 gdbm-1.10-1 glib2-2.34.3-1 gmp-5.1.0-1 gnupg-2.0.19-3 gpgme-1.3.1-4 groff-1.21-2 hwids-20121203-1 iana-etc-2.30-3 iptables-1.4.16.3-1
isl-0.11.1-1 kbd-1.15.5-3 keyutils-1.5.5-3 kmod-12-1 krb5-1.11-2 libarchive-3.0.4-2 libassuan-2.0.3-1 libcap-2.22-3 libffi-3.0.11-1 libgcrypt-1.5.0-3
libgpg-error-1.10-2 libgssglue-0.4-1 libksba-1.2.0-2 libldap-2.4.33-3 libltdl-2.4.2-7 libmpc-1.0.1-1 libnl-3.2.11-1 libpcap-1.3.0-1 libpipeline-1.2.2-1
libsasl-2.1.23-9 libssh2-1.4.3-1 libtirpc-0.2.2-4 libusbx-1.0.14-1 linux-api-headers-3.7.1-1 linux-firmware-20121118-1 mkinitcpio-0.12.0-2 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.20.2-1
mpfr-3.1.1.p2-2 ncurses-5.9-3 openssl-1.0.1.c-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20121128-1 pam-1.1.6-1 pambase-20130113-1 pcre-8.32-1 pinentry-0.8.2-1 popt-1.16-5 ppl-1.0-1
pth-2.0.7-4 readline-6.2.004-1 run-parts-4.3.4-1 systemd-197-4 sysvinit-tools-2.88-9 tzdata-2012j-1 xz-5.0.4-1 zlib-1.2.7-1 autoconf-2.69-1 automake-1.13.1-1
bash-4.2.042-1 binutils-2.23.1-3 bison-2.7-1 bzip2-1.0.6-4 coreutils-8.20-1 cronie-1.4.9-2 cryptsetup-1.5.1-1 device-mapper-2.02.98-1 dhcpcd-5.6.4-1 diffutils-3.2-1
e2fsprogs-1.42.6-1 fakeroot-1.18.4-1 file-5.11-1 filesystem-2012.12-1 findutils-4.4.2-4 flex-2.5.37-1 gawk-4.0.2-1 gcc-4.7.2-3 gcc-libs-4.7.2-3 gettext-0.18.2-1
glibc-2.17-1 grep-2.14-1 gzip-1.5-1 heirloom-mailx-12.5-3 inetutils-1.9.1-4 iproute2-3.6.0-2 iputils-20121221-1 jfsutils-1.1.15-3 less-451-1 libtool-2.4.2-7
licenses-2.9-1 linux-3.7.3-1 logrotate-3.8.2-2 lvm2-2.02.98-1 m4-1.4.16-2 make-3.82-5 man-db-2.6.3-1 man-pages-3.45-1 mdadm-3.2.6-1 nano-2.2.6-2 netcfg-3.0-1
pacman-4.0.3-5 patch-2.7.1-2 pciutils-3.1.10-1 pcmciautils-018-6 perl-5.16.2-2 pkg-config-0.27.1-1 ppp-2.4.5-5 procps-ng-3.3.5-1 psmisc-22.19-1
reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-4 sed-4.2.2-1 shadow-4.1.5.1-3 sysfsutils-2.1.0-8 systemd-sysvcompat-197-4 tar-1.26-2 texinfo-4.13a-7 usbutils-006-1 util-linux-2.22.2-1
vi-1:050325-3 which-2.20-5 xfsprogs-3.1.10-1
Tamaño de descarga: 153,97 MiB
Tamaño instalado: 579,04 MiB
¿Continuar con la instalación? [S/n] s
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pm-utils: defer anacron on battery power
smtp-server: send job output via email
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Dependencias opcionales para systemd
cryptsetup: required for encrypted block devices
libmicrohttpd: systemd-journal-gatewayd
quota-tools: kernel-level quota management
python: systemd library bindings
python2-cairo: systemd-analyze
python2-gobject: systemd-analyze
systemd-sysvcompat: symlink package to provide sysvinit binaries
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ca-certificates
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smtp-forwarder: for sending mail
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linux-atm: ATM support
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llamada a execv fallida (Formato de ejecutable incorrecto)
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xinetd: for tftpd
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Dependencias opcionales para mkinitcpio
xz: Use lzma or xz compression for the initramfs image
bzip2: Use bzip2 compression for the initramfs image
lzop: Use lzo compression for the initramfs image
mkinitcpio-nfs-utils: Support for root filesystem on NFS
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llamada a execv fallida (Formato de ejecutable incorrecto)
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Dependencias opcionales para linux
crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
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cron: scheduled log rotation
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Dependencias opcionales para groff
netpbm: for use together with man -H command interaction in browsers
psutils: for use together with man -H command interaction in browsers
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less
gzip
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llamada a execv fallida (Formato de ejecutable incorrecto)
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Dependencias opcionales para netcfg
dialog: for the menu based profile and wifi selectors
wpa_supplicant: for wireless networking support
ifplugd: for automatic wired connections through net-auto-wired
wpa_actiond: for automatic wireless connections through net-auto-wireless
wireless_tools: for interface renaming through net-rename
ifenslave: for bond connections
bridge-utils: for bridge connections
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gtk2: for gtk2 backend
qt: for qt4 backend
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curl: gpg2keys_curl
libldap: gpg2keys_ldap
libusb-compat: scdaemon
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python2: for lsusb.py usage
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heirloom-mailx: used by the preserve command for notification
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Booting Arch Linux from usb flash [SOLVED]

I have instaled Arch Linux on usb flash (filesystem is ext2) I have regenerated initrd (mkinitcpio -p) with usb hook (HOOKS="base udev usb ide scsi sata filesystems"), but Arch Linux stop booting with error: unable mount dev/disk/by-uuid/my-uuid After pressing Control-D in recovery shell Caps Lock and Scroll Lock leds blink on my keyboard
I have tried booting from label (dev/disk/by-label/my-label) I have got same error
Please help me
PS Please forgive me for my English
Last edited by vav (2011-02-13 12:42:59)

GRUB is installed on the usb flash drive
menu.lst:
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1e3753e6-01f4-4153-a36a-07a81c552ee0 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1e3753e6-01f4-4153-a36a-07a81c552ee0 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
Last edited by vav (2011-02-13 08:06:27)

Arch linux for Ubuntu users

Hello everyone,
When using Synaptic on Ubuntu it usually sets everything up for you so all the installed software tends to work out of the box without any need to change around configuration. Is the package manager in Arch Linux as integrated as the one from Ubuntu?
Thanks
Frank

I'm new to the linux scene (about 1 month now). My most used distro (and my fallback if I mess up another distro on a seperate partition) was Ubuntu, until I figured out the basics of Arch. After this enlightenment, I find Arch to be much easier to work with in terms of customizing apps, having the right libraries I want, and to just do daily functions. I love to always check for updates to the system. Ever notice in ubuntu there are about 30 repositories you have to sync with? In Arch there are the 3 basic repositories (extra, core, community) and multilib if you are on 64bit. Working with pacman is much more efficient and controlled than apt-get imho.
One thing I hated with apt-get is that you add in 3rd party PPAs that are slow. With Arch and its pacman + yaourt(aur) there is really no need for these 3rd party repositories as everything you can imagine is probably available in official repositories or built by the community. Go check out https://aur.archlinux.org/ this is one of the coolest community made pool of apps around.
As mentioned before, the pacman doesn't hold your hands so be prepared to google and learn what some packages do. For example, I am running gnome and install a KDE app called amarok. Pacman will install everything (including KDE and qt libs) to get amarok started. However, the only things it doesn't install (but it does tell you what) is extra depencies.
Optional dependencies for amarok
libgpod: support for Apple iPod audio devices
libmtp: support for portable media devices
loudmouth: backend needed by mp3tunes for syncing
ifuse: support for Apple iPod Touch and iPhone
So, basically I just read through pacman's output, and either google or make a decision on what is needed. This way my system is controlled tightly and I know more about the system. In the future if I buy an ipod and want to sync, I'll remember there are some optional depencies available for this. I can type "pacman -Qi amarok" and it will show me what it depends on as well as optional depencies.
Sorry for going on for so long but you get the point.

Arch linux on ubuntu?

I was always wondering, why is there an arch linux sub-forum on the ubuntu forum?

molom wrote:We should have an Ubuntu sub-forum on the Arch Linux forums
Hey that's not a bad idea, we can do that and then organize bets like 'how long will it take before someone posts something there' , etc...
A fraction of the money involved goes to Arch of course

[SOLVED] Trying to install Arch Linux from harddisk using /dev/sda2

Hi
I'm trying to install Arch using my swap partition, following this wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ha … stallation
What I've done:
Downloaded ISO: archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso
Command: swapoff /dev/sda2
Command: fdisk /dev/sda and changed the system type to 83 (Linux) on /dev/sda2
Now it looks like:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00017e5b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1060289 530144+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1060290 3164804 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3164805 105579179 51207187+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 105579180 488392064 191406442+ 83 Linux
It complained about device was busy, but it still seemed to have changed the system type, so I did partprobe as it wrote.
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.
[root@swamp ~]# partprobe
<no output>
Next I did:
[root@swamp ~]# dd if=archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso of=/dev/sda2
327680+0 records in
327680+0 records out
167772160 bytes (168 MB) copied, 4.3025 s, 39.0 MB/s
[root@swamp ~]# mkdir /mnt/sda2
[root@swamp ~]# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
mount: warning: /mnt/sda2 seems to be mounted read-only.
[root@swamp ~]# ls -al /mnt/sda2
total 150466
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 240 May 16 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 5 01:40 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 556 May 16 15:52 boot
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 448 May 16 15:54 isomounts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 May 16 15:54 overlay.sqfs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 154058752 May 16 15:54 root-image.sqfs
And unmounted it again.
The wiki page says to type: fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck, but I get no such file while trying to open sda2fsck.
[root@swamp ~]# fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda2fsck
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Can I ignore the above and continue modifying grub?
Thanks :-)
Last edited by valvet (2010-11-08 14:49:07)

fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck makes no sense because /dev/sda2fsck is not a deivce. If the wiki says that, then it is wrong. It's only doing a fsck anyway so probably not really needed. If you are just formatting th swap partition then use, mkfs.ext{234}.
edit:
from the wiki
# fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda2: 243/78936 files (8.2% non-contiguous), 310519/314880 blocks
The first like should just be
# fsck -f /dev/sda2
Last edited by sand_man (2010-11-05 06:46:01)

Check out my review of Arch linux (from ex debian user)

let me know what you think.
http://www.antonywilliams.com/2008/07/l … linux.html
I tried to get it added to list in distrowatch and linuxtoday (emailed both, but nothing )
nevermind, noticed someone else already linked to this.
just wish i could delete this topic!
Last edited by SyXbiT (2008-07-18 02:48:34)

i don't see it.
here, you can see the reviews linked next to the iso release (or year)
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch
i don't see mine

Total newb wonders about movie size when recording from HD-cam

Hi, I've got a HD-cam set to 16:9 and I've got a iMovie11 -made project which is set to 16:9. However, everytime I set in to capture video in iMovie, the resulting video is "less" than what the camera's display showed me. And for some reason, sometimes the picture "drops" (as if there's more of the footage available than what is shown by iMovie's preview screen) and rises back up to the center, where it again shows "less than expected". I'm wondering, what am I doing wrong, is there some switch I know nothing about, or something in iMovie which would let me watch the whole video.

Hi, I've got a HD-cam set to 16:9 and I've got a iMovie11 -made project which is set to 16:9. However, everytime I set in to capture video in iMovie, the resulting video is "less" than what the camera's display showed me. And for some reason, sometimes the picture "drops" (as if there's more of the footage available than what is shown by iMovie's preview screen) and rises back up to the center, where it again shows "less than expected". I'm wondering, what am I doing wrong, is there some switch I know nothing about, or something in iMovie which would let me watch the whole video.

Uncyclopedia Arch Linux Entry - Ubuntu Noobs

Seeing as Arch's community has a relatively significant population of (ex?) Ubuntu Noobs, I felt the urge to include a little splurge about it on Uncylopedia. The fact that I wrote it is a bit ironic, because I am an ex Ubuntu noob myself (used it for almost a year before I called it quits).
I'm posting this thread to see if my statements actually resonate with the Arch community or not really - and if anyone has serious objections to it I'll remove it. But hey, it's just a joke...
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Archlinux#Ubuntu_Noobs
edit: I doubt this is worth noting, but this is my first time using uncyclopedia so I hope I really hope you like it.
Last edited by vsk (2008-08-11 15:53:44)

vsk wrote:I'm posting this thread to see if my statements actually resonate with the Arch community or not really - and if anyone has serious objections to it I'll remove it. But hey, it's just a joke...
Methinks you don't quite yet have the right mindset to contribute to Uncyclopedia.
(head here or here for some good pointers to get you started)

Linux from Ubuntu...

Can I run it on an Intel Mac, and if so, how do I install it?

If you want to install it and run it in Parallels you need to choose the PC version, not a Mac version.
Edit: I just went back to the Ubuntu website to see what PPC/Intel versions you guys were talking about. I don't believe that the PPC version will run on an Intel Mac. (I guess I could burn the .iso to a CD and see if Rosetta could handle that, but it would eat a lot of memory.) The Intel version you see is the one to run in Parallels. I don't think the Intel version will run native on an Intel Mac because they are setup to run on a computer that uses bios. You might check in the Boot Camp forum to see if anyone has gotten it installed.
I have Ubuntu 6.10 running in Parallels. I'm no pro at this. I'm experiementing and learning! A baby barely crawling.

[SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Hello all,
I just finished installing Arch Linux from the core ISO which I downloaded from the site. The install went smoothly and booted up fine. Also I was able to install gnome and its extras fine as well. On the first boot after installing gnome I managed to get my resolution correct also. However later on after I installed compiz fusion everything with the resolution seems to be going wrong . My computer specs are shown below :
AMD 64 3200
Asus M2N MX-SE
2 GB Ram
Geforce 8600 GT
Viewsonic VA1918wm (Native resolution is 1440x900)
At the moment I can only manage to get upto 1024x768 and it looks quite bad at that resolution. I have attached the xorg.conf I have at the moment.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
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 "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri2"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
While I was trying to fix this I noticed I was encountering other problems also. For one I found that sometimes dhcpcd times out on booting up and I cant seemt o connect to the Internet on booting. Although I just thought of trying a static IP and I'll post if that helped later on.
Another problem is I found that I seem to get the following error randomly. Pressing ctrl + D after this just restarts the machine.
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Finally, while I boot up I noticed that it says "Mounting root partition as read only [DONE]" Is the root partition supposed ot be mounted as read only ? Attached my fstab just in case it is needed.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
As you can see I'm quite new to Arch Linux so any help would be deeply appreciated.
Last edited by FilledVoid (2009-09-11 16:28:28)

Thank you for all your suggestions . I tried replacing the ID to Card0 but it didnt seem to fix it . However on the bright side I checked more threads on the forum and found some that helped out . :)
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75070&p=2
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72788
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76938
I copied the xorg.conf file from the third link and just made minor changes to it like removing all the resolutions I didn't need and now its working fine :).
Now Im just stuck with two problems. One is the following message which appears randomly.
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
******************* FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED *************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the mantenance shel the system will *
* reboot automatically. *
A thread about the same can be found http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=295384 but there isn't a solution on it.
The second is the intermittent problems with the Network being setup. Sometimes when I boot up it just says dhcpcd timedout and I won't be able to connect . However I can connect on another machine at the same time.
Took a look at the drive in question with gparted and it shows the below information:
/dev/sdb1 ext3 / 32.59 GB 4.92 GB 27.68 GB boot
By any chance is any of the above information relevant :x ?

Tux, Tux linux, Arch Linux, T-shirt artwork.

He he sounds really easy till you realize you need 10" by about 11" inch prints with about 600px res resulting in huge files and load times. Anyways I am on a disability and run a small Tux Linux Artwork Swag shop and here is some of the artwork. I am working on a large tux logo with small Arch Linux writing on the side but still in the planning stages.
Concept proof.
This is a post about the swag shop on this forum
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79807
Last edited by TomWitko (2010-06-11 03:15:58)

xc1024 wrote:Can I use the grafitti logo for a wallpaper? http://witko.ca/image-shack/tux/archlin … -shirt.png
The grafitti logo wallpaper is Streetart Arch Linux from kde-look.org the owner said I could use it for t-shirts but you would have to ask him.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ar … ent=102620
You could send him a pm from there thats how I got in touch with him. He has some real nice artwork

Google+ Arch Linux page

Hi all,
just to notify you about the new Arch Linux (official) page on Google+.
I had to add "official" because there was a couple of duplicates. This page will be managed only by DEVs and TUs to share information about the recent news, warnings, rebuilds and more...
Anyway, ATM Google allows only one administrator per page.

Also, I just don't want n Arch Linux pages, neither a fan page to share screenshot/videos anything.
I don't understand what you mean here.
Aside from that, it seems hypocritical that a GNU/Linux distro would use proprietary networks to promote its product or community. Just my two cents.
Pierre: From what I can tell, this branching into the networks is only adding another way to get the same information found on the mailing lists or the front page, so the traditional ways of receiving news should still work.
Last edited by xelados (2011-11-09 14:36:47)

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