no prompt at runlevel3

tty13 · 09-23-2010, 03:00 PM

This could be conflicting framebuffer devices, in X do a lsmod and see if you have more than one xxxfb present.

mdynac · 09-23-2010, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostzinzthought

I'm not sure what the problem might be, but out of curiosity, what happens if you run:

xwmconfig

and change to a different default desktop, and leave that? (for example, switch to KDE and logout/ctrl-alt-backspace from there)

Just curious if you have the same issue with a different desktop or if it's a problem specific to XFCE.

this made no difference

mdynac · 09-23-2010, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lufbery

This part puzzles me. The default behavior is to boot to runlevel 3. You shouldn't have needed to change anything.

People wanting a graphical boot need to change to boot to runlevel 4.

In addition to the LILO suggestion, perhaps you could post your inittab and/or compare it to one that's stock.

Regards,

my bad, i had to do that to Zenwalk, just before i got rid of it for Slack-current....i have this strange love/hate relationship with zenwalk....

mdynac · 09-23-2010, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tty13

This could be conflicting framebuffer devices, in X do a lsmod and see if you have more than one xxxfb present.

lsmod shows no xxxfb device
just the following video while in x

output
i2c_core
button
agpgart
video
intel_agp
i2c_algo_bit
drm
drm_kms_helper
i915

thats all pertaining to video

mdynac · 09-23-2010, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

Since you are using the 'vesa' setup. How do you have the '/etc /lilo.conf' setup for the default video? Post the '/etc/lilo.conf' or just the 'global' portion which should contain;
one of the above as your vga setup.

here they are

tty13 · 09-24-2010, 05:03 AM

Well, try to blacklist i915, it should not be there.

onebuck · 09-24-2010, 07:33 AM

Hi,

You can try placing the 'vga=normal' in the global section of '/etc/lilo.conf'. Be sure to comment out any other 'vga=' option and run 'lilo' as root.

Your hardware may not support the 'vga=791'. You could step until the proper option or find out what your hardware does support.