Starting X - no screens found

[shaurz]

When I try to start X it says that no screens are found. Do I have to manually set up xorg.conf?

[pepedog]

Can you try this first?
xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

[shaurz]

Can you try this first?
xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

I get the same error.

[pepedog]

Did you update and install these packages?

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pacman -Syu
pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev lxde xorg-xinit dbus

Also I think you can edit .xinitrc in your home directory

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nano .xinitrc

The command you should put in your .xinitrc to start LXDE is:

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exec startlxde

Then startx should start it (just tested that)

[shaurz]

Aha, it seems I did not have xf86-video-fbdev. I wasn't sure what driver it would need for X.

Is the Raspberry Pi capable of generating 1280x1024 resolution? Currently it seems to start up in 800x480.

[pepedog]

I think it's actually 720p
Comment out hdmi line in /boot/config.txt
Then reboot

[shaurz]

xdpyinfo says it's 800x480.

There is no config.txt. Hmm...

[shaurz]

I found a fix for the resolution problem here: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting

[pepedog]

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http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/archlinuxarm/archlinuxarm-29-04-2012/archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.zip
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/archlinuxarm/archlinuxarm-29-04-2012/archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.zip.sha1

Pi people haven't updated download page
Latest firmware upgrade will wipe out txt files on earlier images, a thing that will never happen from latest image ever again, plus lots of kernel bugs ironed out

[shaurz]

Could you paste the contents of the txt files here so I don't have to reinstall the new image? Are they not included as part of a package?