topic title: Desperate
Posts: 21
tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#16
oldhoghead wrote:Could you post:

cat /boot/grub/device.map

cheers,
ohh
I will do, it's just slow going, cause I have to re-type it all here, and I type slow...
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#17
secipolla wrote:If your machine has a floppy reader you can make a
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floppy, boot from it and call the disk at the USB port.
It does have a floppy reader, but it's the only machine with one, can I still make a plop? How do I from my broken install?
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#18
cat /boot/grub/device.map:

(hd0) /dev/sda

Shew, lucky that was a short one...
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#19
Hey, can someone move my thread to here: antix-m8-5-marek-edelman-f40.html ? I seem to have posted in the wrong spot. Sorry.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#20
tnt1.

You said you can login, but you get no X display.
After logging in did you type startx? If so, what happens? Any messages?

You may need to remove your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

To do so, as root, open mc (midnight commander), naviagate to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and delete F*.
Then reboot
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#21
Ok, gonna try it, will let you know.
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#22
How would I do it as root? sudo?
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#23
type startx:

Gives me (EE) no devices detected


also check the logfile at /var/log/xorg.0.log for additional information
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#24
how do I open"also check the logfile at /var/log/xorg.0.log for additional information"

?
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#25
tnt1 wrote:how do I open"also check the logfile at /var/log/xorg.0.log for additional information"

?
Open pcmanfm or rox file manager. Use the up arrow till you see a folder named var. open it. look for log. open it. look for xorg.0.log.

or Open terminal

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sux
enter password. type in when you see the #

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leafpad /var/log/xorg.0.log
sopy and paste contents in next post using code tags.

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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#26
If you are logging in but get no X display, then pcmanfm won't work. From the prompt you can type

vim /var/log/xorg.0.log

to see the contents of that file.
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oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#27
I think he and anti worked this out in chat, so I think he's up and running now.

cheers,
ohh
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#28
oldhoghead wrote:I think he and anti worked this out in chat, so I think he's up and running now.

cheers,
ohh

Yip, I am, thanks again guys. I added a 5Gb swap as well now, so it's a wee bit faster...
anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#29
What exactly are the specs for that box?

inxi -F.

I thought you had 256 MB RAM.
If you have only 64MB RAM, then antiX will not run fast.
You can get it to run faster and use less RAM if you cut down on unneeded services running eg wicd if you don't need it.
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tnt1
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
#30
Yeah, I initially had 256Mb of ram, but then I had a hardware failure, had to strip it down and rebuild to find the faulty bit that was preventing boot, it seems to have been the RAM... I will fire it up as soon as the power here comes back on and post inxi -F for ya... (it's battery is toast, so mains only and we have a power failure here, oh, the joy of Africa __{{emoticon}}__ )