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waspinator

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 6

Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

I'm trying to install SliTaz on an old ThinkPad 390E.

Specs:

333 MHz Mobile Pentium II (Dixon PII core)

192MB RAM

Neomagic NM2200 2.5 MB

ESS Solo-1 Audio chipset

After booting with a live CD I cannot boot into X until I follow these instructions:

login as root, then run

# tazx

Select: Install or reconfigure xorg

Select: neomagic

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf:

# sed -i 's/vesa/neomagic/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf

as a regular user:

$ startx

Then I can install it, and when I reboot back into it I have to repeat the procedure above to log into X again. This time though instead of the normal desktop I get a brown screen with a mouse cursor. I can right click to show the openbox menu, but none of the options work except "activate composite" which turns the background grey. I can then select "stop effects" and it turns back brown.

Any Ideas on how to get a normal desktop?

Thanks

waspinator

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 6

Re: Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

here is some output from /var/log/slim.log

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Isomg cpmfog dorectpru" "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrapst_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
/usr/bin/xauth: file /home/tux/.Xauthority does not exist
pcmanfm: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
lxpanel: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to reinstall gtk+ using the follwoing command

taxpkg get-install gtk+ --forced

but I got an error during post-instal commands
/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0: error while loading shared libraries: libatk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I install those shared libraries?
what other logs can I look at to diagnose this problem?

Thanks

kultex

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

did you check

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:xorg-xvesa

I think you are missing mesa-dri

install it with

tazpkg get-install mesa-dri

waspinator

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 6

Re: Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

@kultex

I just tried to install mesa-dri but it said it was already installed. I think my problem is I'm missing a bunch of shared libraries. Is there a way I can user tazpkg to find all missing libraries and install them?

I tried to install a few of them manually like pam, clearlooks, menu-cache, gdk-pixbuf, and some others but I'm still missing a bunch of stuff.

I think the best thing would be if tazpkg or something else could just install everything that's missing.

Thanks

kultex

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

ok - I did not see this first /home/tux/.Xauthority - it seems that you dont have a home directory http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:faq-login

waspinator

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 6

Re: Blank brown screen with cursor on boot up

@kultex

It was logging in even without Xauthority. I just couldn't do anything until I installed some dependencies. I could finally start a terminal and lxpanel, but not pcfilman or pretty much anything else.

I gave up and booted from the CD again and reinstalled it, this time using ext3 instead of ext4. Not sure if that matters, but now it booted up ok. Still needed to install the neomagic driver, but no more dependency issues.

Thanks