GUI HELP

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: GUI HELP
started by: nathanscc

Posted by nathanscc on Aug. 30 2005,23:45

I know that this is a stupid question but can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to get my DSL to have a GUI (graphical user interface)

Nathan Neil
< http://www.nathanscomputercenter.iwarp.com >

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Aug. 31 2005,00:53

You should be getting Fluxbox (the GUI) by default when DSL is started.

Can you give us some more info on your system? (cpu, ram, video card, etc)

Are any error messages displayed?

-J.P.

Posted by nathanscc on Aug. 31 2005,00:57

My system is 248ram
23 GB hard drive
cd-rom
cd-rw
pentium 4

i just get a text based OS (kinda like freeBSD before you install KDE) i just think i need a line of code to start the GUI

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Aug. 31 2005,01:11

Type "startx" and see what happens.

Linux is a derivative of Unix, and BSD is Unix. So it should feel very familiar. ^_^

Also, what video card do you have? Motherboard?

If it's a OEM box (like Dell or HP) give us at least the model name.

Have you tried framebuffer mode? If not, type "fb800x600" at the Boot: prompt. Without the quotes, of course.

-J.P.

Posted by nathanscc on Sep. 01 2005,22:37

startx gives me
could not find kernel image
ok i tryed framebuffer mode if i did it correctly but it seems no matter what i do i get a error
cloop: error -3 uncompressing block 688 65536/65535/25142/0 16277268-16302410
my laptop is what i am now trying to run it on its stats are
compaq armada 1700
96 memory
4 gb hard drive
good, but older video card
this laptop has windows xp Home edition on it also

this laptop has also run before:
freebsd
windows 98

after all of these cloop errors i get a text based thing that says
dsl@tty1[dsl]$

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 02 2005,21:13

Try typing in:

dsl xsetup

at the first boot prompt.

Then try some of the various xvesa server graphics resolutions.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Sep. 03 2005,02:26

< Here > is a nice how-to that I have written inthe Documentation.

Posted by hawki on Sep. 03 2005,12:49

Hi
You might consider that you have a bad or incompatible CD or it was created from a bad image. I once had a batch of CD's that created similar problems. In some cases I could get them to boot if I used the toram option. It seems the start/stop operation of normal reads caused errors.
good luck