X Troubles

[Warrior]

Specs:
   Processor: AMD Duron 1.4GHz
   Ram: DDR 266 256MB
   Slackware: 10.1 10GB Partition (ext2 FS)
   Video: S3 ProDDR Savage or ATi Radeon 7000 64MB AGP
   

Now when I type in "startx" or "xinit" I simply get a black screen.

Could this be due to a bad installation? The disk is pretty old but I've tried to reinstall numerous times.

Any ideas?

[iago]

One question: which distro?

I'm not sure what's wrong.  But try this:

When you get the black screen, hit control-alt-backspace.  That should kill X.  Then check /var/log/Xorg*.log.  Or, if it's Xfree, its log files should still be in that folder.  Looking through them might give you a clue. 

Also check /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or xf86.conf or whatever it's called).  See if there's anything odd. 

<edit> If all else fails, there's a Wiki on X's site that is for tech support, or something.  Or www.linuxquestions.org, they know a lot more than us.  Or irc.prison.net #linuxhelp. 

[Joe]

I was having this problem yesterday too. What I ended up doing is

su
cd /etc/X11
rm xorg.conf
rm XF86-*
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

But you don't have Debian Packages (I suppose) so the last line won't apply/work for you. Basically, reconfigure your X server. xorgconfig or xorgconf in Slackware.

[Newby]

One question: which distro?

Take time to read! :p

x86] link=topic=3450.msg35063#msg35063 date=1130115698]
Specs:
..
Slackware: 10.1 10GB Partition (ext2 FS)

[Warrior]

Rebooting into slack
Going to try and see if I can get a log, thanks.

[Warrior]

I think it completely hangs. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work. I've tried xorgconfig about 5 times already. :/

[Ergot]

Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

[Warrior]

Well once I got "could not find monitor" or something, else I simply had to restart. Note: that previous error exited immediately, didn't hang.

[Joe]

Ctrl+F2. startx
Ctrl+F1. Read output.

[iago]

One question: which distro?

Take time to read! :p

x86] link=topic=3450.msg35063#msg35063 date=1130115698]
Specs:
..
Slackware: 10.1 10GB Partition (ext2 FS)

Yeah, I obvoiusly didn't see that.  I just skimmed over the specs, because I don't care about them :-P

And yeah, logs would be handy. 

[Warrior]

Well when I try to have it run on bare vesa I get:
Unable to use framebuffer please specify busID

and when I try to use the Radeon sometimes I get:
no screen found

other times it just hangs and I can't switch consoles or stop the task or anything.

[Ergot]

Post the Graphics and Monitor section of your xorg.conf. As well as any errors from your Xorg.0.log

[Warrior]

I will as soon as I figure out how Links works. It doesn't seem to like saving sessions across pages (WTF!)
Can I mount my windows drive and save it as a textfile on there then unmount? Or are mounts read only?

[Ergot]

Links should be able to save sessions... I've used it to post on here before I think.
Yes, you can mount your Windows drive and save it.

[Joe]

I don't believe NTFS can be mounted readwrite yet.