KDE sounds like it's there..

[jerrybasham]

..I hear the little music thing as if KDE is
there, but it is not there; just a blank
screen, sometimes, and other times a
screen with thousands of little verticle
colored lines on it.

Slackware 10 on a Gateway 2000 with
an i810 Video builtin card..

Every other distro I've installed on that
same machine at least boots into KDE.

I used lilo as the boot loader.. I don't know
what else to say, except that I've never
been able to get any Slackware version to
work on this machine, although I've had
good luck with Vector, Mepis, etc..(I switch
out hard drives to experiment with distros).

Any help?

-- Jerry

[Dapper Dan]

Are you trying to log in with KDE through kdm? Or are you just going startx?

[jerrybasham]

Are you trying to log in with KDE through kdm? Or are you just going startx?

Thank you for answering.

As root I type, "startx," without the quotes.

I used vi to examine my /etc/x11/xorg.conf file
and put my monitor name and model in what I
hope is the appropriate place. Please note that
I did that as an effort to cure the problem.. it
was not showing the gui, so I tried that and it
made no difference. :o

-- Jerry

[Dapper Dan]

It sounds to me you need to fix the vertical and horizontal rates. Do you by chance know what those are for your monitor? It would likely be in your manual. What is the make and model of your monitor? You might be able to find those rates somewhere on the net.

[jerrybasham]

This is a Gateway EV700B. I'll Google around..
I doubt if that's the problem, though. The
refresh rates in xorg.conf looked ok to me,
although I don't remember exactly what
they were, they couldn't have been so far
off that I'd get *no* display.

Thanks for your reply.

I'll report back after I find out stuff.

[jerrybasham]

..but nothing works and KDE looks like crap.

The fonts are all looking like all Linux fonts
looked back in the RedHat 5.2 days.

Plus, not much in the KDE menu works..

This looks like more work than I want to do.
I think that if I want to get the most out of
Slackware I'd better stick with my VectorLinux
hard drive: I have SuSE, Mepis, Yoper and
Vector on seperate hard drives.

Right now I'm just too mad at Slackware to
continue with it. By the way, it is Slackware
10, not the latest one. Is the latest one
any more stable than 10? I tried 9.1 a while
back, too, and got about the same results
I've been having with 10.

I'll try again some time. Maybe when 11
comes out.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

-- Jerry

[Krendoshazin]

try commenting out all the horizontal and vertical values in xorg.conf by putting a # before it like the other values, this should use the monitors default values

[jerrybasham]

That worked!

Now I have to find out what's up with the
display quality (fonts, etc). I'll work on
it..

Thank you very much for that simple
suggestion.

-- Jerry

[Krendoshazin]

glad to help, btw if you want to use your own ttf fonts you put them in a directory called .fonts in your home directory, if it doesn't exist just use mkdir from the command line to create it

[Lotharjade]

try commenting out all the horizontal and vertical values in xorg.conf by putting a # before it like the other values, this should use the monitors default values

Do you mean the horizontal and Vertical refresh rates??? I have the same problem as above.

Secondly, to the origional poster, what did you list as memory for your card?