A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
I have a HP Pavilion 520n
512 meg RAM
On board Video (intel 810 chipset)

The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
I chose to install KDE and GNOME
From the command prompt I type "startx"
It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
a spray gun.

Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?

TIA

Paul wrote:
> A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
> I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
> I have a HP Pavilion 520n
> 512 meg RAM
> On board Video (intel 810 chipset)
>
> The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
> LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
> I chose to install KDE and GNOME
> From the command prompt I type "startx"
> It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
> Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
> a spray gun.
>
> Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
> I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
> I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
> Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?
>

Try importing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or xfree86) file of mandrake into
Slackware. You can also try to configure your X server directly. xorgcfg

Olive

On 2005-03-12, Paul <pingramnet@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
> I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
> I have a HP Pavilion 520n
> 512 meg RAM
> On board Video (intel 810 chipset)
>
> The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
> LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
> I chose to install KDE and GNOME
> From the command prompt I type "startx"
> It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
> Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
> a spray gun.
>

Did you check the /var/log/ for the x log. Not running 10, using 9.x,
however, I assume the logs are still there and should provide some indication
or at least a starting point.

ken

Olive wrote:

> Paul wrote:
>> A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
>> I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
>> I have a HP Pavilion 520n
>> 512 meg RAM
>> On board Video (intel 810 chipset)
>>
>> The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
>> LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
>> I chose to install KDE and GNOME
>> From the command prompt I type "startx"
>> It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
>> Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
>> a spray gun.
>>
>> Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
>> I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
>> I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
>> Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?
>>
>
> Try importing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or xfree86) file of mandrake into
> Slackware. You can also try to configure your X server directly. xorgcfg
>
> Olive
And is there a reason for using 9.1? We are up to 10.1 now. My 9.1 disks
were downloaded back in October 2003.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

Paul <pingramnet@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:

> A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
> I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
> I have a HP Pavilion 520n
> 512 meg RAM
> On board Video (intel 810 chipset)
>
> The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
> LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
> I chose to install KDE and GNOME
> From the command prompt I type "startx"
> It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
> Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
> a spray gun.
>
> Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
> I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
> I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
> Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?

Yes - you haven't configured X properly, I guess.

Have a look here for some guidance - the whole book is useful :-)

http://lizella.net/chapter6.html

hth

Glyn
--
RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.lizella.net/
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
JFGI http://jfgi.us/

Paul wrote:
> A friend of mine talked me into taking Slackware 9.1 for a test Drive
> I normally run Mandrake 10.1 with no problems to speak of.
> I have a HP Pavilion 520n
> 512 meg RAM
> On board Video (intel 810 chipset)
>
> The install went quite well. I chose to install "ALL"
> LILO starts great on boot and Linux boots to the command prompt.
> I chose to install KDE and GNOME
> From the command prompt I type "startx"
> It tries to start but all at once the display goes bizerk!!
> Looks like someone took 20 different colors and sprayed the screen with
> a spray gun.
>
> Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
> I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
> I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
> Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?
>
> TIA
You can go into a terminal and su to root.
Then do:
lspci
This gives you a list of pci devices so you will be able to enter the right data
in the next thing you can do.
Then do:
xf86config
This lets you set-up and write a new file for Xwindows so you can get startx to
work.
I have done this but had to redo it a few times till I got it right.

--
Leo in Canada:
They said "everyone uses microsoft" and so like the lemmings they marched into
the sea.
< running Linux >

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> Have a look here for some guidance - the whole book is useful :-)
> http://lizella.net/chapter6.html

URL is incorrect.

http:/slackbook.lizella.net/chapter6.html

Previously the slackbook was hosted on my home adsl connection and the
above link will still show you a dated version of the site, but that
won't last.

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.netWORK> writes:

> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Glyn Millington dared to utter,
>> Have a look here for some guidance - the whole book is useful :-)
>> http://lizella.net/chapter6.html
>
> URL is incorrect.
>
> http:/slackbook.lizella.net/chapter6.html

Horrors!! Apologies all round for this. As you see I have it right in
my sig.

The reason for this is that I actually use the revised Slackbook as my
homepage for Firefox, and had the old URL there and pasted it from there.
All rectified now.


atb



Glyn
--
RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.lizella.net/
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
JFGI http://jfgi.us/

John Culleton wrote:

>
> And is there a reason for using 9.1? We are up to 10.1 now. My 9.1 disks
> were downloaded back in October 2003.

John, I have never used Slackware before only Mandrake. Mandrake, as
much as I like it for a Home PC Desktop isn't without it's "glitches".

I want to start building servers for my customers and although I have
been using Linux for about 2 years still consider myself a newbie.

I cannot use Linux for work because of some proprietary software I run
that requires the Windows OS.

I found Slackware a breeze to install, but would like to be able to use
the GIU if I can.

Glyn Millington wrote:
> +Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.netWORK> writes:
>
>
>>In alt.os.linux.slackware, Glyn Millington dared to utter,
>>
>>>Have a look here for some guidance - the whole book is useful :-)
>>>http://lizella.net/chapter6.html
>>
>>URL is incorrect.
>>
>>http:/slackbook.lizella.net/chapter6.html
>
>
> Horrors!! Apologies all round for this. As you see I have it right in
> my sig.
>
> The reason for this is that I actually use the revised Slackbook as my
> homepage for Firefox, and had the old URL there and pasted it from there.
> All rectified now.
>
>
> atb
>
>
>
> Glyn

Both worked for me, go figure!