I didn't know where to put this so it ended up here.

I've got a Dell D600 with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz processor, 512 GB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. The video card is an AMD nee ATI Radeon RV250 Mobility FireGL 9000.

I'm trying to run antiX on this system. A common setup would be using SLiM and iceWM which is what I'm trying to do.

My problem is that SLiM fails to load. At the end I'll post the most recent portion of my SLiM log file. I believe the problem is that my video card does not have drivers available for it other than the open source drivers. I assume these drivers do not load until x is started which is too late to be of any use to SLiM. I further assume that SLiM doesn't have a copy of the open source ATI drivers. So how can I figure out how to point SLiM at the correct drivers? Thanks.

slim shouldn't care about your drivers. slim, as with all desktop managers, should tell X to start. X will start up (if it can) and slim will then run on top of X. One of two things is happening: 1) X is failing to start or 2) slim is failing to start. Sadly, you have not posted your slim log file, as you said you would. You have also not posted your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, which would tell us if X is failing to start.

Adam

You are right. As I was making that post I had several matters that had to be attended to and I forgot to post the log before I submitted the post.

Since that time I have worked on it quite a bit. I ended up doing the following:

1. Booted into init 3 as root
2. ran sgfxi -N radeon
3. selected 1 to load the desktop

This resulted in SLiM starting fine. I'm not exactly sure what that means since you're saying that SLiM shouldn't care about drivers.

I cannot post log files right now because I'm currently re-installing. I edited several config files as I was trying to figure this out and I'm not that familiar with Linux in general. Rather than trying to make sure I found all my *.old files and put them back where they were supposed to be, I thought it would be just as easy to re-install and do only what needs to be done to make it work.

Alright, here's how it went on the re-install.

1. Booted from the install CD.

2. Before installing I configured the wireless card and connected to the internet.

3. Installed

3. Re-booted into init 3.

4. Logged in as a normal user and did "sudo apt-get update".

5. Logged in as root and did sgfxi -N radeon

6. Selected 2 so that it wouldn't load the desktop under root.

7. Logged out of root and in as a normal user.

8. startx (because I'm ignorant enough that I don't know how to reboot from the prompt)

9. Rebooted

10. antiX booted up into SLiM.

Everything seems to be working great. The only thing I did differently than I had done before was that I force installed radeon drivers using sgfxi.