On Salix64 15.0 pacman needs these three libraries that Slackware64 15.0 seems to load automatically:

libSDL2_image
libSDL2_mixer
libSDL2_ttf

It seems to work fine. Xfce comes up. It lets me adjust the screen, run slapt-get, change icons, etc.
I still boot with lilo

Computer:

64-bit iso dvd
bios
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Full Installation

... cope with X trouble (ctrl-alt-F2). I wished it were that easy. Usually when I have X trouble the console text screens are also clobbered and ctrl-alt-F1,2 and 3 do not work. Fortunately ctrl-alt-delete did work to allow for a "clean" shutdown. Also, it's fairly easy to press the TAB k...

Salix looks great, was easy to install and has many pieces missing from a normal Slackware install. The startup problems with X were easy for me to fix but would be very hard for a newbie to Slackware. I had a similar problem trying PC-BSD ( http://www.pcbsd.org/ ) where I did the installation and i...

The behaviour you describe on first boot should not occur. What did you do to fix it, once you had booted into runlevel three? Does X now work normally? Are you using 14.0? Yes I'm using the Xfce 64-bit version 14.0 and X works normally now. To fix it I booted to another Linux partition and upgrade...

Hello I'm new to Salix but old to Slackware. I like the system as it has many pieces missing from the usual Slackware release. But here are some suggestions to make it easier for new users of Salix: I tried signing up for this forum yesterday but got locked out. Please give newbies more time/more ch...

I'm new to Salix but know Slackware very well. There appears to be a bug in the wicd default setting for ethernet, it is set to "eth1". My ethernet card is eth0 and wicd did not find it. To fix this I started wicd and "preferences" page. Under "wired interface" I change...