[Running Slackware 10.0 on a Compaq Presario 5400US (~2.4 GB partition).]
When I type "startx," it gives the usual blurb of text, then, as X is starting, switches to some "weird-ass" vertical bars. I don't know if this is a hardware problem (I used Knoppix v3.4 and the X system worked fine).
I grabbed the hardware specs from the Compaw website.
Graphics
Integrated Direct AGP 3D Graphics with 8 MB Dynamically allocated as video memory
• 64-bit hardware-accelerated 3D graphics
I tried to use Google and the Search function here, but neither have returned anything useful. Maybe I'm looking for grapes when I should be chasing apples ( ... yeah, that didn't make much sense to me either
), but could anyone offer any advice?
>>I am guessing that this is a software problem, but I am not sure. I can't seem to find any pages that suggest that I might need a driver .. <<
[Just to make sure it wasn't a one-time thing, I uninstalled, then re-installed all the X, XAP, KDE, etc. packages ... still doesn't work]
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