Paul <pingramnet@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:

> 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.
>
> Mandrake seem to handle my display fine.
> I did have a problem however trying to install FC3 and Suse 9.2
> I installed Susi 9.1 no problem.
> Does anyone have any theories what might be going on here?

Yes - you haven't configured X properly, I guess.

Have a look here for some guidance - the whole book is useful :-)

http://lizella.net/chapter6.html

hth

Glyn
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