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