hi, i just moved frm fedora to slack, having some problems with X, here are they:

i'm still using default setting i.e., i hav to manually start X by typing startx at the console(I like it this way),
now when i come out of my X session (either KDE or fluxbox), i come to the console but now if i again want to startx nothing shows up on my screen, although X is running.

and one more thing i have configured the lilo to use standard display(not the one that shows Tux on top), this is because there's another problem, when i boot slack, everything is displayed & after i start X & come out of it nothing shows on my screen i.e., i cannot see the console.

plz help...

In your xorg.conf file what driver is the graphics device set to use?

Try using runlevels instead of startx.
> init 3
multiuser mode (default commandline mode)

> init 4
multiuser mode with X11 and session manager

It could also be something in /etc/rc.d/rc.3
This script is run when you enter runlevel 3.

thanx for the reply
It uses the VESA framebuffer

finally figured out, i hav an 845G chipset so i ran xorgconfig & chose the i810 driver & it works!

oh oh, also figured out there's another 1 problem, that is:
i startx & i close the X session, now i return to the console all right, but instead of quitting if i use ctrl+alt+F2 and again i come back by ctrl+alt+F1, i do not see X, but some text that runs in background of X session..... what should i do?

try ctrl+alt+f7

thanx it worked! , i'm using only 3 terminals, so that would make ctrl+alt+F4

not really
In slackware's runlevel 3 you have 6 virtual terminals (tty1 to tty6, [Alt]+[F1] to [Alt]+[F6] in the consoles)
The X server sessions are from [Alt]+[F7] to [Alt]+[F12] in the initiated order, i.e. the tty3 console doesn't have to be the [Alt]+[F9] X session
As mentioned before, when in X you can switch back to any of the 6 terminals with [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F 1-6]. You need the [Ctrl] key there for functionality purposes.