topic title: xorg wont start
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Panos
Joined: 23 Jul 2015
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Hi there. Just tried Antix15 with a live cd and it somehow"clicked", something that had only happened with Crunchbang before. loved it.
I'm trying to install it on a very old Acer Aspire 3002LM1 with 521MB of ram. Live CD works fine but when i install it on hard disk x wont start. Last message before console login is"splash-all exit: No framebuffer found"
It has a SiS card which shows up in inxi -F
Startx

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 Bus error at address 0x.......
Fatal server error: Caught signal 7
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Some lines from Xorg.0.log

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LoadModule:"Sis"
Warning , couldn't open module sis
UnloadModule :"sis"
Unloading sis
Failed to load module sis.(module does not exist,0)
open /dev/dri/card0 no such file or directory
From another post BitJam said

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We added a sisimedia kernel driver from outside the vanilla Linux kernel tree. It does not get loaded automatically by X so for people who have SisS graphics hardware, X was not using their hardware. To get around this, we detect the graphics hardware and if it supports the"sis" or"sis-agp" kernel module then we create an xorg.conf file as per the sisimedia README so people with this hardware boot to X with their graphics hardware supported automatically.
but unfortunately i have no idea how to use this info.
thanks
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Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#2
Post inxi -F for hardware verificatioon please.
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BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#3

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are bad. They are often related to a problem with the hardware. The last time I saw a lot of them was when I had a VME bus plugged into a Sun pizza-box. If the VME bus was not configured correctly, the Sun would give some bus errors and then wouldn't boot.

You could try deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that allows X to start. You could also try using a
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to enable the framebuffer. For example vga=795 will try to give you 1280x1024 resolution in the virtual consoles. If you can use a vga parameter to set the virtual consoles to the native resolution and you have no xorg.conf then that same resolution should be used by X.

You can try starting X again (as root) with:

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service slim start
Of course you will need to reboot to try a new boot parameter.