GNOME fails to start

[Awesome96]

Hello. I'm having trouble getting GNOME to start properly. Just doing a startx will give me the output: Fatal error: No screens found. Of course by then I realized that I must have forgotten to install my video card drivers, so I did. I did:
pacman -S xf86-video-ati
Problem being, I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Should I have one? I'm not really sure.

Anyhow, installing the driver as I just did didn't work; I am still getting the no screens error. What do I do now? I read the Wiki and it basicall tells me to install that, and then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which I do not have.

Note that I can get xorg-twm to start, it's GNOME that doesn't want to work.


EDIT:
I think I might have found the possible culprit. I seems I have a corrupt install of my ati driver.
pacman -S xf86-video-ati
Gives me multiple, "file alread exists".
While doing a
pacman -R xf86-video-ati
Will tell me it's not installed.

When I startx, it tells me that /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so is too short, could this be because the install is corrupt, and also, how do I fix this?

[atreyu]

Are you out of disk space? (run "df")

Can you temporarily move the files installed by xf86-video-ati package to backup filenames, then try to install again?

Have you tried the "X -configure" command? It will attempt to auto-configure X and make a temporary config file for you. Some versions of X don't support that command though...

[Awesome96]

Are you out of disk space? (run "df")

Can you temporarily move the files installed by xf86-video-ati package to backup filenames, then try to install again?

Have you tried the "X -configure" command? It will attempt to auto-configure X and make a temporary config file for you. Some versions of X don't support that command though...

I simply removed the conflicting files and installed it, and now it works.