G'day all,

I just installed Slackware 9.1 on an ancient pc--a 90MHz HP Pavilion with 16MB memory. The "video card" is an S3 32/64 PCI on the motherboard. The monitor I'm using is an old HP M50 (hsync 30-54Khz, vsync 50-100 Hz, dot rate 65Mhz...).

Anyway, when I try to start X (xinit, startX, init 4 ...) the screen goes blank.

I ran xf86cfg...no X.
I ran xf86config...no X.
I ran xfree86setup...no X, but almost no error messages.

Here's my (condensed) XFConfig:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
...
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

...
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
Option "noaccel" # [<bool>]
Option "swcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_dram_refresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_dram" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_edodram" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_vram" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "s3"
VendorName "S3 Inc."
BoardName "86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]"
BusID "PCI:0:8:0"
EndSection

...

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
...
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The only error message in XFree86.o.log is

(EE) s3(0): Cannot read V_BIOS

90mhz... your kidding right? Probably not even worth your time to even use if you do get it working.

Running the latest 9.1 with all the latest desktops and window managers would be like you trying to install Windows XP on it and expecting it to run.

Ya.. u should consider a faster machine..

thanks...y'all are quite helpful

Also KDE is on the second slackware CD so If you didn't install with a second CD you arn't going to have it....I know some people that have overlooked that, I learned from their mistakes

dude, try ctrl - alt -/+ <- i got the same problem as you do man, but atleast i got a picture when i did that. you hold down control and alt, and press either - or + !
my problem is that the resolution is too big for my screen, and i have to move my mouse to the different sides i wanna see. >

hope what i wrote you helped

Slackware 9.1 provides XFree86 4.3.0
According to the link below your card was not supported in 4.1.0 and so may not be supported in 4.3.0

http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status28.html

I concur with the advice about the machine not being up to the task.