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com. BOY

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Registered: 2013-04-25

Posts: 9

SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB boot to commandline instead of desktop

Hello, I have tried to boot a SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB on an old computer, but in both cases it goes to a commandline instead of the desktop after I have selected a language and keyboard layout. Pretty strange, because it does manage to display the select-your-language-and-keyboard-layout GUI. When trying the [c]startx[/c] command it says it has already been started.

I don't know what graphics card is in there.

Lubuntu works fine.

I have this problem too on my MacBook (which has an NVidia)

How to solve?

Guest

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Re: SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB boot to commandline instead of desktop

I have the same problem, but only when booting a custom iso, not the original releases.

uli

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Registered: 2013-05-16

Posts: 2

Re: SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB boot to commandline instead of desktop

Hi, I had the same problem with my new NVIDIA card and solved the problem as follows:

I have changed the driver in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf to "vesa".

(I have an empty xorg.conf file!)

Then I could start the GUI with slim -d, but the resolution was limited to 800x600.

Then I added in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-Monitor.conf the following to lines:

        HorizSync     28-60

        VertRefresh   50-70

After killing the X server and restart with slim -d everything was fine.

com. BOY

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Registered: 2013-04-25

Posts: 9

Re: SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB boot to commandline instead of desktop

Can you do that in a live session too?

uli

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Registered: 2013-05-16

Posts: 2

Re: SliTaz LiveCD and LiveUSB boot to commandline instead of desktop

Yes, it's working in a live session too.