I installed Slackware 10 on a Linux partition - the whole installation went without a problem. When I boot up, the computer boots automatically into a command line enviornment - I'd like to have a GUI . I've tried changing the runlevel to 4 - it prints "Starting the X11 session manager..." then the monitor turns black and nothing further happens. I get the same end result by entering startx.

Any tips out there?

-Nick

Try running: xorgconfig as root and configuring your video stuff ok

Do you have a NVidia video card by any chance? Mine always does that same thing after a fresh install, what you can do to fix it is change the drive in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from vga to nv.

No, I'm not running NVidia. Thanks, though.

For now, leave the run level at 3. When you get x working, you can change it to 4. This will make things easier on you in the meantime.

You need to configure x before you can run it. There are three handy tools to try out. You don't need all three, so when you get one to work, stop. The three tools are xorgcfg, xorgconfig, and xorgsetup. They are all different, but they try to do the same thing; write a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you can get one of those to write an /etc/X11/xorg.conf that will at least start x for you, I recommend just manually editing the file for improvements/ added functionality.

When I don't have luck with X, my first intuition is to check /var/log/Xorg.* with less. Anything with (EE) beside it is probably what's stopping you.