Problem with xorg and xmonad

Question

Q1 and Q2 solved, left Q3
Q1) when i start xorg with startx, i get the following errors even though xterm shows up:
( EE ) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: rejected by kernel
( EE ) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on back buffer: rejected by kernel
( EE ) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on depth buffer: rejected by kernel
how do I solve this problem?
Q2) another problem I have is Ctrl-Alt-backspace does not shutdown x, I have to switch to another console and switch back to Ctrl-C even though I have added a serverflags section with the dontzap option into my xorg.conf in accordance with the wiki, how do I solve this problem too?
PS in this case my .xinitrc has the line exec xterm
Q3) After I commented out exec xterm in my .xinitrc file and tried to start xmonad with the line $HOME/bin/xmonad, this happens in addition to the error in Q1:
Setting master
/home/user/.xinitrc: line 13: /home/user/bin/xmonad: No such file or directory
when i followed the arch wiki and just used xmonad in the .xinitrc file, a bank screen is shown and these errors occurs:
/home/user/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux: executeFile: does not exist ( No such file or directory )
I followed the instructions at xmonad.org and the arch wiki but why isn't a file there? how do I start it in arch?
Here's my xorg config file
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
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 "record"
Load "glx"
Load "dri2"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
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"
HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
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 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
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
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
hardware used is intel corporation mobile 945GM/GMS/GME 943/940 GML Express Integrated graphics controller
Last edited by unregistered (2009-05-30 11:51:57)

Answer 1

bender02 wrote:
Sorry, I haven't been online.
What do you mean by 'it works but gives me this error'?
The way xmonad works is that if you have your own configuration ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, then when you run it, xmonad automatically recompiles itself and puts the resulting binary into ~/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux. So what the default xmonad binary does is that
1) it checks whether your config ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs has changed (if yes, it recompiles)
2) it checks whether ~/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux is a binary that can be run (if yes, it runs it)
3) runs xmonad with the default config
So I think what happens with you is the case 3).
Note that when xmonad runs with the default config, you won't see anything special (you need to run some programs, or check in the console whether the process actually runs. If it does run, then all is fine and you should ignore that error).
hey thanks, that clears things up alot but since I've used the pacman to install xmonad from the community repository, where can I find the default configuration file that it loads?
and the ~/.xmonad directory does not exist currently, I assume I would have to manually create it?
btw, where did u learn all this from?
and thanks once again