Hi,

yesterday I made an upgrade from Slackware 14.0 to 14.1 on an old Laptop (PIII 850Mhz, 368MB RAM, SiS 630/730 VGA, 40GB HDD) and since then the Xserver crashes when I try to start Fluxbox or Openbox. Logfile: Xorg.0.log
Before the upgrade it worked fine.

As login manager I use SLiM, which starts properly and I can login. But after the login X crashes when it tries to start the DE. The same error occurs when I try to "startx".
When I use the VESA driver insted of SiS, the Xserver works but the screen resolution is only 800×600 px instead of 1024×768 px and I don't know how to change it.

Does anybody know how I can make it run again properly?

Looking at http://w3.sis.com/support/support_faqs_16.htm, it looks like your chip [ 6093.599] (--) Chipset SIS630/730 is not supported on the newer X Server. However there appears to be a patch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...org-sis-driver

Give that a try, hope it helps

Hi.

The stack trace in your log file makes me suspect an sis-exa issue.

Try the following:

1. Close X and logout
   
   
2. Login as root at console
   
   
3. Create an xorg.conf template
   
   
   Code:

   # Xorg -configure

4. Find the Device section for sis in your newly created /root/xorg.conf.new and add the line: Option "NoAccel" "true"
   
   It'll look something like:
   
   Code:

   Section "Device"
           [lines here]
           Driver "sis"
           Option "NoAccel" "true"
           [more lines here]
   EndSection

5. Copy the file so Xorg uses it
   
   
   Code:

   # cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Restart your system as you usually do. If this eliminates the problem, we can alert Pat (Robby) about the issue.

--mancha

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@mancha:
That worked.
Thank you very much!

@mostlyharmless:
Before I read manchs's answer I made a Slackbuild with the patch and built the package. But after installing, it the same error occured. However, it's solved now.
Thank you anyway.

Classic bitrot of an long-unmaintained driver, the dead URL mentioned in the Log is a sure sign.

I would refrain from further dist-upgrading these old machines. Slackware 14.0 will still get security updates for years to come.