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OK, not sure what I did, but.... I HAD Slack 9 up and running fine. On boot up, I modified the inittab to start fvwm95. Evrything worked fine for a few weeks, NOW..... when I boot up, the system stops a the "starting X" line. I can still however, open another character cell screen "alt+F7?" and login. Once logged in I can use the 'startx' cmd and everything starts up fine. I looked in the /var/adm/XF86****.log file and the last line being processed is for the mouse. I even reverted back to an old XF86Config file and the same thing happens. Not sure what I screwed up, but can't remember changing anything for the life of me that would effect this. Also, I use xf86config to create an entirely new XF86Config file with no success. Can someone point me in the right direction as to which files are looked and and in what order they are executed to start X. Again, no errors in the X log.
You don't modify the inittab to specify your default window manager. Run xwmconfig to setup your default window manager. Whatever you added to your inittab file, remove it.
Sorry, I think I did not explain the 'inittab edit' in my request for help. I edited my initab when I originally installed Slack to change the default run level (to automatically start X). Any other suggestion?
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