Hi. Being blind I don't use GUI but from time to time I want to show something on the screen to a sighted person.
For instance, I ran on my old distro 'xinit xpdf file.pdf' ; Things worked fine because the installer had installed everything for GUI. With arch, I tried to instal some xorg packages but... I get a lot of warnings and errors but don't understand how to solve the problems. Here is ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log :begin: [ 639.899] X.Org X Server 1.21.1.23 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 639.902] Current Operating System: Linux messier31 7.0.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:58:02 +0000 x86_64 [ 639.902] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/nvme0n1p5 [ 639.903] [ 639.903] Current version of pixman: 0.46.4 [ 639.904] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. [ 639.904] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 639.905] (==) Log file: "/home/philippe/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jun 24 17:04:51 2026 [ 639.906] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" [ 639.906] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. [ 639.906] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults. [ 639.906] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0) [ 639.906] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" [ 639.907] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section". Using a default monitor configuration. [ 639.907] (**) Allowing byte-swapped clients [ 639.907] (==) Automatically adding devices [ 639.907] (==) Automatically enabling devices [ 639.907] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices [ 639.907] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices [ 639.907] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff [ 639.908] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist. [ 639.908] Entry deleted from font path. [ 639.908] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist. [ 639.908] Entry deleted from font path. [ 639.908] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. [ 639.908] Entry deleted from font path. [ 639.908] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist. [ 639.908] Entry deleted from font path. [ 639.908] (==) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/TTF [ 639.908] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" [ 639.908] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices. [ 639.908] (II) Module ABI versions: [ 639.908] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 [ 639.908] X.Org Video Driver: 25.2 [ 639.908] X.Org XInput driver : 24.4 [ 639.908] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0 [ 639.909] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_33 [ 639.909] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) [ 639.909] (II) Platform probe for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0 [ 639.928] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 13 paused 0 [ 639.929] (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) 8086:3e98:1462:7b98 rev 2, Mem @ 0xa0000000/16777216, 0x90000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 [ 639.929] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 639.929] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so [ 639.933] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 639.933] compiled for 1.21.1.23, module version = 1.0.0 [ 639.933] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0 [ 639.933] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 639.933] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1 [ 639.933] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2 [ 639.933] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3 [ 639.933] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout [ 639.933] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 639.933] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel [ 639.933] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0) [ 639.933] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [ 639.933] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so [ 639.934] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 639.934] compiled for 1.21.1.23, module version = 1.21.1 [ 639.934] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 639.934] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2 [ 639.934] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" [ 639.934] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev [ 639.934] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) [ 639.934] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" [ 639.934] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa [ 639.934] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [ 639.934] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms [ 639.934] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 639.934] (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied) [ 639.934] (EE) [ 639.934] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 639.934] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/philippe/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 639.934] (EE) [ 639.934] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor [ 639.934] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor [ 640.030] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. :end: Many thanks for helps and advices. -- Philippe
