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#1 2025-11-17 09:19:37

LiberalPerson
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[UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

Installed the system as taking reference this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudOL0-B9Hs&t=1287

Things i did different is i set 3 /dev/sda partitions
/dev/sda1 is 4 GB swap
/dev/sda2 is 248 GB around ext4
/dev/sda3 is 90 MB around bios boot

Display manager is LXDM

And while installing xfce4 xfce4-goodies it said me tracker3 conflicting with a package that necessary for installation. I searched tracker3 and learned it is a thing about gnome, so i deleted it and completed installation as succesfully. I am noting that because i didnt install anything related with GNOME.

After reboot i am having a login screen. Choosing the user and entering its password. Screen is waiting me in a blue place with my mouse icon and sending back to login interface.

Hence i am not able to get in user-level graphical interface. I am stuck at login screen in a paradox. I am HAVING graphical screen at login, i can see good designs at login, i can move cursor at login, i can interact at login. I mean computer is not starting with terminal screen to login and it is a good thing. Login starting with graphical interface and graphical login interface is not taking me in. Need help.

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VGA compatible controller:
lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

I was already done "pacman -S xf86-video-intel" command earlier.
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Checks (in TTY2):
cat ~/.xsession-errors
No errors

sudo systemctl status lxdm
Loaded: loaded (.../lxdm.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since 20 min ago

Date arch systemd[1]: Started LXDE Display Manager.
Date after 25 seconds arch lxdm-session[numbers]: pam_unix(lxdm:session): session opened for user username(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Other succesful session opens (with the paradox sending me back in login screen)...

There were no ~/.xinitrc file, so i created a one.
[root@arch] nano .xinitrc
exec startxfce4
Save and exit.

Entered command startx
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Current Date
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.to X server lostding shared libraries

And stayed in same terminal screen. When i go back to other TTY1 i was still having same paradox and startx in TTY2 didnt work.
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!!!! Found some errors
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)"
[28.066] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[28.858] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[28.858] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver swrast
[28.858] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer

cat /var/log/Xorg.1.log | grep -i "(EE)"
also completely same just the numbers in the boxes are different.
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Entered
"sudo pacman -S libxml2" for
AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

But pacman said this package is up to date and reinstalled. After reboot as expected problem continued.

Tried
"pacman -Rns xf86-video-intel"
if using xorg's modesetting driver will change something and it is too didnt work.

Then installed intel's driver again.
"pacman -S xf86-video-intel"

Regards.

Last edited by LiberalPerson (2025-11-22 09:24:49)

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#2 2025-11-17 10:17:12

archevilst
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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

Wild guess, but did you configure it before start?
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/display_managers
"Regarding the configuration, check the presence of a file (or add) /usr/share/xsessions/06xfce4.desktop (the location may differ depending on the distributions), such as: ..."

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#3 2025-11-17 10:32:16

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

archevilst wrote:

Wild guess, but did you configure it before start?
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/display_managers
"Regarding the configuration, check the presence of a file (or add) /usr/share/xsessions/06xfce4.desktop (the location may differ depending on the distributions), such as: ..."

No i hadn't. Now i am configured as the document says but it still doesnt work. Paradox resumes...

Regards.

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#4 2025-11-17 10:44:17

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

'libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

Try to install 'libxml2-legacy' along to 'libxml2'.

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#5 2025-11-17 10:55:08

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

abaumann wrote:

'libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

Try to install 'libxml2-legacy' along to 'libxml2'.

Yes it has progress. Now i am not stuck at login screen. I could be able to enter my user but there is no interactive icons. After login i had a black screen for a short time, after that just my cursor and the blue screen. What i can only do is making blue rectangles with my mouse's long left click and movements.

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#6 2025-11-17 11:00:18

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)"
[27.368] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
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Tried to solute "fbdev" module does not exist error:

[root@arch] sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Intel Graphics"
    Driver "intel"
EndSection

Did a reboot. With that i expected use intel's driver and run it flawlessly. Now computer stuck at the first screen after grub.
/dev/sda2: clean, 133108/19267584 files, 2546072/77070336 blocks.
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Deleted the file with arch-chroot
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Computer came back again its previous state.
Still i have error "fbdev" module does not exist.

Last edited by LiberalPerson (2025-11-17 11:29:53)

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#7 2025-11-18 12:24:29

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

Waiting for a solution in darkness...

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#8 2025-11-20 07:54:18

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

I think, the display manager (what are you using btw, lightdm?), might write something in journalctl or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Probably again
a shared library missing.

You might be better off to boot into console mode, then log in on the console and try `startx` (the old way). You see more, what's going
wrong.. :-)

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#9 2025-11-20 07:55:37

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

I also think, that the integrated Intel GPU is not really supported on Linux (never was). x86-video-intel is usually for i915 and similar chipsets.

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#10 2025-11-20 08:59:30

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

abaumann wrote:

I think, the display manager (what are you using btw, lightdm?), might write something in journalctl or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Probably again
a shared library missing.

You might be better off to boot into console mode, then log in on the console and try `startx` (the old way). You see more, what's going
wrong.. :-)

I was using lxdm
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)"
[27.368] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

Now the computer is no longer in my hold. After desperate attempts and a bit waiting i gave up. And gave the computer to my friend which i was borrowed from him.

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#11 2025-11-22 09:07:49

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

Sounds like the chip is also not supported by the old framebuffers, in the kernel config one would have to look it up. Or maybe in other sources.
This is work. :-)
Nothing which works out-of-the-box, I'm afraid.

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#12 2025-11-22 09:23:07

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Re: [UNSOLVED, NEED WORK] Graphical Interface problem

abaumann wrote:

Sounds like the chip is also not supported by the old framebuffers, in the kernel config one would have to look it up. Or maybe in other sources.
This is work. :-)
Nothing which works out-of-the-box, I'm afraid.

Thank you for reply :)

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