I got Slackware 11 to install on my system and chose kde as my default desktop! I have dual booted Slack with Winbloze XP. Now, the only way I could make this happen was to do a complete reformat and then seperate my hard drive from there then installing partition magic 8 onto my winbloze and creating a swap partition and a ext2 linux partition. Then from there I insert the #1 Slack Disk, reboot, enter, enter, root, type 'setup', then scroll down to target partition, enter, it asks me if I want to format, I enter on yes, and so on, I configure my network, I take KDE as my default window manager, I chooser to turn on copy and paste, and so forth, I choose not to see additional fonts. and so on and so on and so on....so then after all this .....it tells me to enter the install disk so it can install boot secter and do what it does to the mbr and yadda yadda yadda, then ejecta the disc and I can reboot with ctrl, alt and del, so I do, then I have the option at start up to windows or linux, everything is kewl right.....NO< NOT RIGHT!!!!

I create a new user, I type in just out of it not working the other way, xwm config, brings up my window..window, so I then press enter, I type, startx initrc.kde press enter, what do I get, a kde window, NO, I AM NOT SO LUCKY< I get a freakin' little white box in the upper left corner of my screen with a flashing curser!WTH? I did, kpersonalizer, worked through it to no avail???? I am totally lost at this point. I did try all the other window managers also and did the same thing! Please help some that is lost on this subject!!!

Can you startx as root?

same issue as root or as user!

The wierd thing is I also can not get permission to write to the disk to do like a cfdisk or fdisk, so I have to do that part via Partition magic8? I don't understand that either?

What kind of video card do you have on the system and have you installed the drivers for it yet?

NVidia, The messed up thing is this, I did have at one time, Slackware installed on this machine. I had an accident and was hospitalised for a period of time and during the wife had/needed a friend of mine to reformat the hdd and I talked to him and all he did was Install Winbloze XP right off the disk, nothing special, just deleted the partitions and created a new one for XP and formatted and installed XP so he says. Now I am home and Trouble!I have checked all my equiptment and everything is the same, as I installed it! I am just lost on why now it will not allow me to reinstallSlack if at one time I had it installed? and it ran excellent!

Does this still happen after running xorgconfig as root, or while running xorgcfg as root? What do your Xorg logs say?

sounds like a perms issue, prob the partition softwares fault, if it were me i would back up everything and then wipe the disc, including the mbr, partition the disc to suit needs of xp and slackware, then re-install xp then install slack

I will have to try the xorgcfg cmd and see what it says, have not even thought of that as of yet, duh, <<<< newbie here, sorry! I was on tinkering around and came across this, I was in KDE config and was in the MBR somehow and found a way to probe it, well it come back with this...

Configuration file NOT ok: lilo says:
LBA42 Addressing assumed
Ftatal error:raid_setup:stat("insert_your_boot_device_here")

I am lost on this stuff, I have no idea what it means at all and just by luck come acrost it and prolly could come across it again, been there once I can usually remember how again! I am pretty good on a computer like that, I like to tinker with stuff and tyry and figure things out on my own but, this issue has had me stumped for a few months to be honest! I would be writing a book if I was to tell you everything I have tried to this point so I will not! I will try the xorgcfg, and I have completley emptied the hard drive, reinstalled winbloze, split it in 2, saving half for win and half for slack, suits me, still same stuff, that was my 15th attempt at that! Still the same issue, Can't get permission from the start, even with a completely blank, unpartitioned space! So therefore, I have to install PM 8 onto WXP and from there yadda, yadaa, yadda! and then I can do the install just fine until it is time to startx! I can not get a window manager for some reason, but ubuntu, suse, no redhat, debian, those are the ones I have tried!also backtrack but that runs off a disk! lol. is there another way to wipe a hdd clean? so that you can get or install anything you want?
I have many more hdd's but they are 80 gigs and this one is a 250 gig and I would really like to dual boot this one for the wife's sake, she will use linux if have to but prefers winbloze and I prefer linux! SLACKWARE linux! Thanx in advance!!

Might try re-installing the nvidia drivers. Before I install the ones for my 6800GS PCIe all i get is the little white terminal box when I try and get into kde, but once the nvidia drivers are installed works fine.

Its possible this is not the only problem but it does sound exactly like the one I have after a fresh slackware install.

EDIT: Sounds like some of your other troubles are permission problems, get to them next .

OK, I have ran Xorgcfg and Xorgconfig, and I have configured it all and it doesn't help! Matter of fact, I have even tried to look at the log, as root and I can't get permission to look at it. I did get this much though.

No screen found x10: Fatal 10 error 104(connection reset by peer)
on xserver ":0.0" after 0 requests(0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

/var/log/Xorg.0.log-returns this- permission denied

I did find that I ned to open my box back up and find out exactly which vid card I do have cause I apperantly do not have a Nvidia, it is Showing I have a different one, unknown to me, some generic???? I will report on this later but, would that stop me from recieving permissions from the hard drive? That is the real issue here? How am I going to get the permissions from the hard drive to install Slackware, run cfdisk or fdisk, like I know and want to really do without having to mess with PM 8, the way I have in the past! Can or does anyone have any suggestions about that or do we just have to work on this issue and just be happy if we get it worked out either way we look at it?! Again, THX way in advance!!!

OMG someone stole your video card while you were ill!

I'm sure Hern is right. If you can get a command line, do an lspci and get your video card details. Or get them from winblows. Then you can get the correct driver installed. In fact you might as well reinstall Slack from scratch once you have your hardware specs sorted out.

Then you can find out which one of your friends borrowed your graphics card without telling you!

tobyl

ok, I checked my card and it is the same card I installed so my fright is over, lol, it is an nVidia/MSI vid card, I will attempt to reinstall my nVidia drivers again and again, a few times just to be sure I am doing it right, I will check back to either say, I got it, or to see what y'all say, if I get it going I will say in detail so that others can learn from my mistakes maybe!!

did you try to run it?
you have to use a program like more or less...

Might try su or sudo even as root to see if you can over-ride some of the permission problems. It rarely works but might be worth a try

also wonder if this might have something to do with permission problems:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=566862