On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote:
> The system itself installs fine, but I can't get X to work. During the
> setup (and later using Xconfigurator) the "can you see me" test screen works
> fine, but when I try to run X for real I get a blank screen a few seconds
> after the blue background appears. If I Ctrl-Alt-BS out, linux is still
> running (I can type 'reboot' and the system obliges) but I still have a
> blank
> screen (Alt-F(n) does not help).
have you tried configuring X from the command line using xf86config?
>
> System details:
>
> Laptop make/model: Atlas Flyer 4700
> Processor: AMD K6/2 @ 380Mhz.
> Display Adapter: Silicon Motion Lynx 910, 4Mb video RAM.
> Screen: 1024 x 768 LCD Laptop.
> System RAM: 64Mb.
> System HDD: 6Gb.
>
> I have tried the SMI Lynx X-server, as well as the Frame Buffer SVGA server.
>
> During the install, I selected the SMI Lynx (generic) option (I think this
> is the closest to my card), and the laptop display panel 1024x768 option.
>
> For the record, I tried using Slackware 7 UMSDOS version (BigSlack, again
> downloaded from their website) and X worked no problem, although both X and
> the console would crash if I did a large directory listing.
>
> So far, I have tried 'startx 2 > x.out' on the advice of another list, but
> x.out only contained the following three lines:
>
> localhost being added to access control list
> kpanel: waiting for windowmanager
> kpanel: ok, commencing initialization
>
> Please help me fix this - I need to escape the clutches of Bill Gate$ once
> and for all...
>
> Austin Denyer.
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