Black screen of death When starting X

btrsteve · 05-28-2005, 04:11 AM

I have installed Slackware 7.1 on an old box i have, everything went smoothly (after reading posts here to cure my probs) but now when trying to start X server all i get is a black screen. I have ran the xf86config command and set every thing up. I have looked and looked for answers but have found no solutions. Any advice would be great

darkleaf · 05-28-2005, 05:25 AM

If you press CTRL-ALT-BSP what do you see as error message?

btrsteve · 05-28-2005, 11:56 AM

Using XFree86 ATI Driver version 4.6
Unkown Graphics Controller detected
Unkown Chip Descriptor In BIOS : 0x3f3f0000
Unkown Video Adapter detected
Brooktree 476 or similar ramdak detected

Support for this adapter is Highly Experimental

I guess it helps to tell you the card is an ATI rage 128.

comprookie2000 · 05-28-2005, 12:28 PM

When you configured x did it list the r128 driver?

btrsteve · 05-28-2005, 01:29 PM

Yes, I chose the driver and entered the specs for the card when asked also

comprookie2000 · 05-28-2005, 01:44 PM

How old is the box you are having problems with?

btrsteve · 05-28-2005, 01:53 PM

Pentium 233 mhz CPU
ATI Rage 128
Maxtor 10 gig HD
Samsung 8X Cd rom
32 MB Ram

So its pretty old, I couldnt get Slack 10.0 To install on it so thats why i went to an older version, I was hoping the release for that time would work a little better with the box.

comprookie2000 · 05-28-2005, 01:59 PM

I would try to see if damn small will work,I have used it before on older stuff.

btrsteve · 05-29-2005, 01:07 AM

I just got done installing Vector on the box and it went very smooth, Thank you for all your help