20 pages...? ( much... )

find errors with : " # grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log ".
can you post some specific errors here ?

egag

Ahh well. I think I am going to give up on Slackware and move back to Ubuntu, or Arch.


Thanks for your help!

Hey, x problems are generally not too difficult to solve (wait for a real problem )

Did you at least try install the last official nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com as you have a modern video card

yeah...guess Slack is not for you.....

good luck though.

egag

When I buy my new PC I will give Slack another chance, for now I am sticking with stable old Debian.

I had slackware 9.1 on a sony vaio pcg-505ex, seemed to work fine. I installed 10.1 on an amd 850, got the blank screen of death when I startx. moved that hard drive to my p4 2.26, same blank screen. reinstalled 10.1 on the p4 2.26, works fine. I installed 10.1 on my sony laptop, and am not getting the blank screen.

What i have noticed is, the installs that got the blank screen recieved 2 errors on package install about X11 arch fonts or something, the reinstall on the p4 2.26 is the only install that did not recieve these errors and is the other copy that doesn't blank screen, I think the errors are produced from certian cd-rom drives..?

How would I disable these or enable different fonts. I have tried the xorgconfig and all that stuff over and over, sometimes recieving errors about color depth, others just blank screen.

how do I load gnome apposed to kde? Thanks for any help. i'm new but i think i picking this stuff up pretty well

hey, X configuration is not that hard in Slackware..
you haven't been caught by a real problem yet...
the thing is: Slack is not a "just works" distro...

there's a lot of very useful info on X settings in previous posts in this thread
and I'm sure everything written here is worth the attempt

sad to hear you're switching off slack..

Since you have debian installed.
Just copy the xorg.conf OR xfree86.conf file over to Slackware.

I know you said you quit. But Slackware ain't quiting.

well...copying the xorg.conf might be the best advice for this person.
but , when it works , be sure to take a look at the differences between the two
config files, as a lesson for later.

and people.....one day they quit, the next they are on it again with new energie.
so there is still hope.

egag

I am having te same problems that you had. I am using a nVidia Fx5200 and get a blank screen when I boot. Did you manage to solve the problem and if so what did you do?

I used to get this problem not reliasing that when you do the xorgconfig as user, the xorg.conf will be created at your home directory. Just copy that config file to /etc/X11/ will solve the no X problem. Hope yours is as simple as mine.

When you boot or when you're trying to load X? As adviced try to look at the log files and see if there's an important error there (usually lines starting with (EE) are errors).