I'd try a livecd and see if the gui works. I understand puppylinux slacko 5.4 just became available and it has the same kernel as salixos14.

Try "acpi=off" as a boot parameter. Is this on a laptop?

laprjns wrote:
"Maybe try "slapt-get --install-set d". That should get most of them, but will not include things like qt."

Thanks laprjns, that did the trick. That command does also install qt4, among others.

Perhaps, salix, touted as being "lazy man's slackware", could include this as an option ...

I've decided to give xfce salix 14 a try after being away from slack for a while. Back in the day I did full installs to include development packages as invariably one would be required to compile apps from source. I tried installing stellarium but it needs qt4, and maybe others as the compile ends ...