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About looking at my syslogs I cannot seem to bring them up.
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How are you trying to bring them up?
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I am sorry for being quite acknowledgeable when it comes to some aspects of Slackware and Linux in genera
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... "un-knowledgeable", possibly. No worries...
Slackware has quite a steap learning curve compared with other distributions. However, once mastered, gives a strong insight into how linux works.
So lets make sure that what you're reporting is real and not just down to inexperience. Try similar strategies to the ones below:
syslogs:
Code:
$ ls /var/log | grep syslog
syslog
syslog.0
syslog.1.gz
syslog.2.gz
syslog.3.gz
syslog.4.gz
syslog.5.gz
syslog.6.gz
The most recent log, /var/log/syslog, is produced by the dmesg command. Otherwise:
less /var/log/syslog.0
... which is the one most likely to have errors from the last boot. However, dmesg is worth it, the problems may have produced errors when the driver first runs.
finding bootloader configuration files:
Code:
$ locate lilo.conf
/usr/share/doc/memtest86+/examples/lilo.conf
$ locate grub.conf
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15/debian/examples/kpkg_grub.conf
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16/debian/examples/kpkg_grub.conf
$ locate menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst~
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/menu.lst_addwindowsentrygrubmenu
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/menu.lst_displaysplashimagegrub
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/menu.lst_changegrubpasswordforgotten
/usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst
/usr/share/doc/memtest86+/examples/grub-menu.lst
... this is for my system. I have neither lilo.conf nor grub.conf, but menu.lst is found. It is a puzzle you can boot at all with what you are reporting.
xorg.conf driver:
less /etc/X11/xorg.conf
...snip...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection
...snip...
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But it is looking through the syslogs that will be tedious.
Have you read the gentoo notes?