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So I've installed Slackware on an old PC

It is very very old, I can't check it right now because the installation proccess is still going on. From what I've recall it is an AMD Duron, Sis or Via graphic card, 384 MB. The problem is: what now? What do I do with this?

Here are some project suggestions for your old comupter: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/0...-old-computer/

Well, my first advice would be forget kde and gnome.

I was recently playing around with a laptop w/384M of ram and 1.2 Gh cpu and it was definitely usable so you're not wasting your time. I always use fluxbox btw.

I've installed it with XFCE, got no luck trying to start X. This is what I've got http://pastebin.com/zWVpmEQE
And thanks for the suggestions but none of them seem to be very useful :/ I was thinking about trying something like Arch or ArchBang.

We can give more targeted/relevant advice if you identify the hardware specs of the PC for us. :)

Ok, give me a second
EDIT: here http://pastebin.com/K3XiVsu6

Your questions are confusing:

Quote:

Originally Posted by moisespedro (Post 5088483)

The problem is: what now? What do I do with this?

because we don't know what YOU need to do. ;) I sent you a link with a few dozen project ideas, or you can do typical things that everyone does with a computer, like: surf the web, create documents, look at photos, listen to music, play games, etc.

Or am I completely misunderstanding your questions? :)

Device node was not created:

Code:

(EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

But, the video is detected:

Code:

[    65.151] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1039:6325:1039:6325 rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/134217728, 0xcfee0000/131072, I/O @ 0x0000bc00/128

What is this card? In case, not this:

Code:

$ grep 6325 /usr/share/pci.ids 

        6325  65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

                1039 6325  SiS 651 onboard [Asus P4SC-EA]

I was just seeing if I could revive this ancient machine. The plan was to use it just to surf the web but I think it will be a horrible experience. To be honest, it is just curiosity, I don't think this machine can be used for something really useful (because I have other computers).

Quote:

Originally Posted by moisespedro (Post 5088524)

If you've done a full install of Slackware then give Fluxbox a try and see what happens. At the log-in prompt after you've logged in as yourself issue this command:

Code:

xwmconfig

At the next screen choose Fluxbox.

Then issue this command:

Code:

startx

inxi :: a full featured system information script

http://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/Installation

Code:

$ inxi -Fxz

Machine:  System: Acer (portable) product: AOA150 version: 1

          Mobo: Acer model: N/A Bios: Acer version: v0.3305 date: 05/09/2008

CPU:      Single core Intel Atom CPU N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB flags: (pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3191.98 

          Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz

Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 

          X.Org: 1.7.6 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x600@60.0hz 

          GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering: Yes

Audio:    Card: Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 

          Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24

Network:  Card-1: Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k bus-ID: 03:00.0

          IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>

          Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller 

          driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0

          IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>

Drives:    HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (8.8% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1600BEVT size: 160.0GB 

Partition: ID: / size: 7.1G used: 2.9G (43%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 25G used: 11G (45%) fs: ext4 

          ID: swap-1 size: 2.11GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 

RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present

Sensors:  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: N/A 

          Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 

Info:      Processes: 136 Uptime: 1:02 Memory: 375.6/989.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: N/A Client: Shell (bash 4.1.5) inxi: 1.9.16

Might help cover

Quote:

We can give more targeted/relevant advice if you identify the hardware specs of the PC for us

I can't start X and I am sort of a Linux noob still so I have no idea what to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by moisespedro (Post 5088534)

I can't start X and I am sort of a Linux noob still so I have no idea what to do.

After you logged in as a regular user did you try to switch over to Fluxbox using the commands I gave you? Did you do a full install of Slackware 14.1?

To use graphics acceleration, regular user need to be a member of 'video' group. To check it just run:

Code:

id

If your user is not a memeber, run (as root):

Code:

usermod -a -G video username

and re-login.

Quote:

Originally Posted by moisespedro (Post 5088483)

It is very very old, I can't check it right now because the installation proccess is still going on. From what I've recall it is an AMD Duron, Sis or Via graphic card, 384 MB. The problem is: what now? What do I do with this?

Well, your next several months will be full of fun, trying to make the X.org working...

My bet is at an epic final, ... finally. Something like: "Finally, it WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKS!"

In the mean time, you'll enjoy the googling in the text mode links... :hattip:

PS. Hint: There is no video hardware acceleration for you, and, lot of fun, your X.org SiS video driver is technically unmaintained for years...