WM never loads, ever.

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: WM never loads, ever.
started by: mute

Posted by mute on Dec. 24 2004,04:48

OK I have some hacked up laptop. It has only a 64MB CF card as storage. I extracted the .iso to the CF and got loadlin to replace isolinux. I did Xvesa -listmodes and found 800x600x16 to be the best. After booting with that, I see the penguin again during bootup messages. I've tried with and without fb800x600. Every time I get just the checkered screen with my X mouse pointer in the center. No response to pointer movement or trying to switch back to my console. What's up? Laptop is a really unique thing. It's a surplus NetSchools machine. Rise mP6 CPU 200MHz with 64M of RAM. Everything outside of X works excellent.

Posted by boogart on Dec. 26 2004,16:21

i know this problems too. just one of five times fluxbox window manager was loading successfully using the dsl 0.8.4 distribution.
With dsl 0.9.1 it´s getting better (i even don´t know why) . Here are some things to be mentioned:

remove ALL other cdrom´s and floppys before booting
choose dsl vga=normal at the bootscreen
choose the right settings for your mouse while setting Xvesa configuration.
If you´re using a pointer or a stick instead of a mouse try with an external com-/ps2-/usb-mouse!!!
wait ´til dsl has finsished booting before using the mouse.

maybe one ore more of this points may help you! my actually quote is 1:1 successfull/unsuccessfull booting! :;):