Graphical login not starting on Slackware 14.1 x64
 

Hey everyone!

I had a perfect working Slackware 14.1 x64 desktop but haven't used it for a while. Today while trying to boot it up, KDM doesn't start. All I get is a black screen. I have exchanged my GPU recently and I think that's the problem.

Can I get some tips for getting my system to boot into runlevel 1, 2 or 3. I've tried switching to to a virtual terminal when the screen was blank but that didn't do anything. At LILO prompt I booted up as "linux emergeny" but my keyboard doesn't work to be able to input my root password when prompted.

I've tried searching for a solution but I don't know what's worse Duckduckgo or my searching skills.

With Lilo you can specify the runlevel as a boot options, Hit escape and enter in the boot prompt: <whatever you labeled slackware> <whatever runlevel you want>

You could boot the installation media, mount your filesystem in a chroot, and edit /etc/inittab. Here are instructions:

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...oot_from_media

I have tried to specify the runlevel in LILO adding in the prompt Linux 3 or Linux single (Linux is the lable for Slackware) and it appears that there is a problem with the screen config file (guess). Even if I tell it the runlevel the screen gets blank. It happened to me before at my first Slackware install, because my laptop monitor is 4K. When I pluged in a secondary 1080p monitor it booted nicely.

Probably going to try out the other suggestion from Montagdude and will try to chroot into my filesystem.

Hello,

You can try top pass "vga=normal" and/or "nomodeset" to the kernel.

-- SeB

I have combined the commands in LILO including single "Linux single vga=normal nomodeset". With it I did come to the CLI login prompt and during the boot saw an error about the Nvidia driver not supporting the video card so I guess I just have to update the Nvidia driver.

Thanks all of you guys, I think I'll manage from here!