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Have you configured X? If not, you may want to do that. You can run xorgsetup or xorgconfig to do so, both of which will need to be run as root. Some info about these can be found here.
A good start would be to download Slax (Slackware live disk) and boot it. It will generate a pretty good xorg.conf file which you could copy to /etc/X11 and be able to use startx or init 4 to bring up the GUI.
I've downloaded Slax 6.0.9 and tried it also.
It works fine.
Now does copying xorg.conf file from slax to my / partition really solves
my problem.
If it is unsure then why to damage the default xorg.conf
Can anybody suggest
I've downloaded Slax 6.0.9 and tried it also.
It works fine.
Now does copying xorg.conf file from slax to my / partition really solves
my problem.
If it is unsure then why to damage the default xorg.conf
Can anybody suggest
While SLAX is running go to a terminal window. Change directories to the X11 directory on your hard disk. It will be something like
/mnt/hda1/etc/X11
rename the xorg.conf that is on the disk
mv xorg.conf xorg.config.default (for example)
copy the xorg.conf from the running SLAX this directory
should be
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf
Then when you reboot from your hard disk, you will have a configured GUI.
I would recommend you first run 'xorgsetup' and setup X properly.
Then, you may need to run 'xwmconfig'.
If you run that and it doesn't work, try posting your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log', you may also want to browse through the slackbook and see if you missed something: http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.html#X-WINDOW-SYSTEM
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