black screen after X

[stinkoman]

Hey, I recently installed Slackware 12 via CDs. I have all 6 CDs butit onlyhadmeuse two to install; should it have told me to use all of them since i said 'full install 4.6gb+'? But my main question (maybe a problem from that) is after I log out of KDE I get a black screen and my computer is entirely unresponsive, but still turned on. I do the only thing I can: turn it off. Upon reboot it tells me there is an error on the disk, or something similar, then asks for me to type control -d to login normally or enter roots password to do maintenance work, however I cannot type anything. The only key that works is 'ENTER' Which then tells me that the single user mode must restart, and the process, well, restarts... Any ideas as to what I may have done, or how to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Stinkoman

[stinkoman]

i think it might be a framebuffer problem because i just realized thats the only thing i did differently on this install. is there a way to find out which resolution you can use for your frame buffer? EX. 640x4800x256 ?

[oz]

See if this will work for you:

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

[stinkoman]

1st, I have no idea what that table means. Second, it was the frame buffer. Third, would I just copy/paste that table somewhere or what?

[oz]

Left column is color count/resolution.

Top row is display resolution.

The numbers under each display resolution represent the different settings you can use in your GRUB/LILO file to achieve that particular color res with display res.

For instance, if you wanted a 1024x768 framebuffer, you could add "vga=773" to your kernel line in GRUB.

[stinkoman]

Ok thanks, but how do I tell if it's compatible? Because I like the penguin and the smaller lines, but the default one it chooses apparently didnt work... or should i just reformat and try each one individually till it works?

[oz]

It depends on your hardware. I usually start with the top number because I don't need many colors for my setup and work my way down the list.

I forget what the default is in Slackware.

[stinkoman]

thanks it seems to work now

[oz]

I forgot to mention that LILO puts the vga setting on it's own line in lilo.conf, but you apparently figured that out.

Glad you are up and running!

[stinkoman]

hey i rebooted the compy and i got the error message again.

/dev/hdb1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

but im reformatting and leaving it with the safe choice.