Evening all,
A bit of background first; I've been dabbling with Linux for a long while, swapping between Ubuntu, Mint, Debian to name a few. After getting a feel for my way around, I decided to make the jump to Arch to learn a bit deeper. The setup on my old Dell laptop has made it feel like new, with zippy startups and rapid performance for browsing and dealing with various office applications. I now like Arch so much I decided to also make the switch from Ubuntu on my main machine (dual booting with Windows) to Arch, and this is where I have hit problems.
On my laptop, after following the various Wiki guides, I managed to get up and running with little issue, other than installing the wrong packages here and there. My laptop uses Nvidia hardware, and was a doddle to set up. However, my main machine is using AMD hardware; specifically an HD Radeon 6970. After following the various Wiki guides, trawling message boards and Google, I have been unable to manage to boot into the desktop environment.
I was hoping that some of the lovely folks on here with experience of Arch + AMD hardware would be able to lend a hand in diagnosing my issue, and getting it up and running.
To the problem specifically, when the system boots, I get a black scren plus some standard text in the top left regarding HDD blocks in use, followed by a message that a KVM has been disabled by the BIOS. The system then hangs, and I am unable to do anything else in this window. Switching to TTY2 and logging in, I can perform terminal commands, inclduing "STARTX" which brings up the windows as expected. When using the command "fglrxinfo", I get a message along the lines of "cannot find a monitor (null)". I have been through the X log file, and find no major errors (WW/EE).
Currently I am stuck with it, and would like to avoid switching back to the likes of Ubuntu where things 'just work'. Setting up Arch running exactly how I need it has been a very satisfying and rewarding experience thus far, and hopefully with some kind assistance I can get my main machine running on it as well as my laptop. Please let me know if I can post any other information about the problem to aid in the diagnosis.
Apologies for the ramble, and if you've made it this far, thanks for reading!
A bit of background first; I've been dabbling with Linux for a long while, swapping between Ubuntu, Mint, Debian to name a few. After getting a feel for my way around, I decided to make the jump to Arch to learn a bit deeper. The setup on my old Dell laptop has made it feel like new, with zippy startups and rapid performance for browsing and dealing with various office applications. I now like Arch so much I decided to also make the switch from Ubuntu on my main machine (dual booting with Windows) to Arch, and this is where I have hit problems.
On my laptop, after following the various Wiki guides, I managed to get up and running with little issue, other than installing the wrong packages here and there. My laptop uses Nvidia hardware, and was a doddle to set up. However, my main machine is using AMD hardware; specifically an HD Radeon 6970. After following the various Wiki guides, trawling message boards and Google, I have been unable to manage to boot into the desktop environment.
I was hoping that some of the lovely folks on here with experience of Arch + AMD hardware would be able to lend a hand in diagnosing my issue, and getting it up and running.
To the problem specifically, when the system boots, I get a black scren plus some standard text in the top left regarding HDD blocks in use, followed by a message that a KVM has been disabled by the BIOS. The system then hangs, and I am unable to do anything else in this window. Switching to TTY2 and logging in, I can perform terminal commands, inclduing "STARTX" which brings up the windows as expected. When using the command "fglrxinfo", I get a message along the lines of "cannot find a monitor (null)". I have been through the X log file, and find no major errors (WW/EE).
Currently I am stuck with it, and would like to avoid switching back to the likes of Ubuntu where things 'just work'. Setting up Arch running exactly how I need it has been a very satisfying and rewarding experience thus far, and hopefully with some kind assistance I can get my main machine running on it as well as my laptop. Please let me know if I can post any other information about the problem to aid in the diagnosis.
Apologies for the ramble, and if you've made it this far, thanks for reading!
