i just finished reinstalling slackware8.1 and i still cant boot xwindows i had this problem last time i installed can anyone help me figure it out. every time i install slackware it installs fine when i go to load it , i can log into root but no other commands work. it sits there at a dos type screen. console i think
can anyone help
If you want X to start when you first boot up, and give you a graphical login, edit /etc/inittab with some editor, and find the line that looks like:
id:3:initdefault:
and change it to
id:5:initdefault:
It may be runlevel 4 for slackware, but 5 should work also.
i tried startx it didnt worki gave me an error that said screens found but none usable then beneath that it said no screens found. and what editor would i useto change that line?
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# These are the default runlevels in Slackware:
# 0 = halt
# 1 = single user mode
# 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel)
# 4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers)
# 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 6 = reboot
# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:
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Now you should have a nice graphical login screen.
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i seem to remember having this issue with slack a while back too. to fix it i remember setting the color depth to 16-bit and that fixed it. in your /etc/x11/xf86config file there is a section that looks something like this:
#32-bit
24-bit
#16-bit
#8-bit
just comment out the 24-bit color and uncomment the 16-bit color.
this could be unrelated and just something i ran into, but it's worth a shot.
i have only one problem with that i cant log in as root because it trys to load x11 session manager im sure there is a very simple solution pressing a certain key but i dont know
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