Last Step To Getting Slack Running

[Hotwheelz]

Ive got it installed and everything but when I reboot and it gets to the point that it would start the graphical login screen the screen goes nuts. It has everything from green lines up and down to just fuzzy crap.

Its a decent HP Pavilion 7850, 933MHZ, onboard video. Nothing special.

[sether]

Have you configured X yet?

# xorgcfg -textmode

And did you edit /etc/inittab or has Slack changed since I used it long ago?

[kern]

you could always change /etc/inittab to run in init 3 for the meantime until you have a working xconfig

[onlinebacon]

or you could just run xorgconfig, and do it all yourself

[Krendoshazin]

Use xorgsetup, you'll get the same result and won't risk damaging your hardware.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ToDo[/url]]ToDo

The xorgconfig utility could use some cleaning up. Several questions it asks are either unnecessary or harmful on modern hardware, like refresh ranges and video memory size. It could also be smarter about detecting hardware on modern systems like Linux where the operating system can tell you about the installed hardware.

[borromini]

Have you configured X yet?

# xorgcfg -textmode

And did you edit /etc/inittab or has Slack changed since I used it long ago?

Slack by default boots to runlevel 3. He should change that to 4 after configuring X correctly.