X and Fluxbox :: Can't start display



ke4nt1: I think I tried the swaprgb option on my laptop some time and if I remember correctly, it didn't work.

compaqjohn: Just a thought - how do you boot DSL? If you use loadlin from a dos/win partition you need a clean dos/win boot without accessing autoexec.bat and config.sys (you can do this by pressing F5 or F8 when booting dos/win). If this is not the case, then I think you're correct when you say that Linux is detecting the old chip. In the full XFree86 I think there is an option to set the pci slot for the graphics card (even the integrated chip uses pci). I have no idea if this is possible with Xvesa.
skoas: thanks.  the way that I done the Hd install was to set it up on its own partiton and to start it with lilo like most linux distro's that I have seen.  This problem has been bugging me now for quite some while and I have tried almost everything I can at this stage.  I will download the distro again, just to make sure that it is proper.  I downloaded the full X11 and tried to install it but keep getting an " can't find cc" or something like that when I do a make I don't know if the two problems are connected?
The"cant find cc" is because there is not any development files on this
little 50MB distro..  
You will need to install gcc g++ and make if you want to compile from sources.
Many folks have used the"apt-get" utilities to obtain already compiled applications.
Search the forums for X11 or XF86 for more info ..

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ke4nt
why my user : root can't start with X windows but my user : damnsmall can
what's the problem ????????????

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