Arch install cinnamon

[quick yarrow]

Installing Arch Linux with cinnamon on a very old Intel device, after Archinstall I'm met with a black screen with some text "/dev/sbd2 clean, (insert alot of numbers)
How do I get my desktop working?

[marble forum]

it ran into a critical missing driver error. I'd try re-flashing archinstall to your USB and trying again.

errors like this usually occure because either the image you are flashing is corrupted, or the flashing process is interuppted and the image on the USB is corrupt.

If you run into the same error afain, try these two thing:

• Redownload the archinstall image
  or
• Try a new USB drive.

[tulip plaza]

The log file in your home dir might have better information

I doubt this has anything to do with the USB you're using to install arch.

[quick yarrow]

I'll try it

[quick yarrow]

But just to make sure, I already downloaded arch onto the laptop though, And there was no errors while doing so.

[marble forum]

Some times if the download is interrupted it can corrupt part of the download, but thats usually the last thing i check in an install process. (mostly because its so time consuming, usually.)

[storm magnet]

Arch installs packages from the live repos, not from your USB. The USB is just a live environment.

[marble forum]

So it should be an issue with the graphics driver, or the implementation of that driver in Xorg.

Thanks for letting me know.

[storm magnet]

As pedantic says, we'd really just be guessing without investigation that home folder log

[storm magnet]

When you end up in this state, you can use Ctrl+alt+f# keys to switch to a vty, where you can log in to the terminal and see if you can use less +G ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log to read that mentioned error log to see if you can find any more info there

[quick yarrow]

Sorry for the late response, Im working with Ethernet issues so I can't download less and I had to use cat. Terminal also told me to check "/home/linuxmuffin/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" and so I did. (I'm pretty sure they're the same thing.)

[storm magnet]

Okay, basically the same as the original output, just cleaner. You said a very old Intel device, tell us now about the hardware.

Laptop?

Model number?

Did you install a display manager (gdm/sddm/lights/etc), or are you trying to launch cinnamon with startx from the console or something?

Ethernet issues?

[quick yarrow]

I do believe I installed a display manager (which didint work) and I also use startx (which also didint work)

I probably should've gave this in the description but the hardware is:

CPU: Intel (R) Core(TM) 2 C (also IGPU)

GPU: Intel corporation Mobile 954GM/GMS 953/940GML express Integrated graphics controller(rev 03)

Network device: Bottom of the photo

[tulip plaza]

The thing I see which hints you might need something which explicitly supports older hardware: glamor requires at least 128 instructions (64 reported)