X problem with Salix64 XFCE 14.0 on Eee PC 1015BX

[globetrotterdk]

I have recently installed Salix64 XFCE 14.0 on an ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1015BX. I am using GRUB2 as a bootloader, and if I boot normally, all I get is a black screen. This was not the original behavior, when I first installed the system. The problem first started after I built some software (Chromium) on the laptop. However, if I modify the boot menu to boot into runlevel 3, log in from the command line, and then use the "startx" command, I can boot into X without any problems. I am not really sure what log files to look at to see if something shows up that will give a hint as to the nature of the problem. Any advice?

[mimosa]

Try adding this to the boot parameters:

addappend = " video=SVIDEO-1:d"

Not sure if your problem is the same one that is meant to address, just a hunch.

My new laptop is a different model from the same firm and I couldn't get X at all (though I didn't try the above at the time). I'm now running Slackel on it, and the more recent kernel solves the problem. There have been other similar ones reported here. Perhaps it is a cluster of related troubles.

[globetrotterdk]

Try adding this to the boot parameters:

addappend = " video=SVIDEO-1:d"

Thanks for the quick reply. When I add the command to /etc/default/grub and run "update-grub", I get the following response:

"/etc/default/grub: line 15: addappend: command not found"

[mimosa]

Must just be a Lilo thing. I'm afraid I don't know about grub. Another one to try is

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nomodeset

though again, that's for Lilo; but I bet Google will tell you what it is in Grub, because it isn't as arcane as the one I posted before.

[globetrotterdk]

Modifying the line in /etc/default/grub to read as follows seems to work so far:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet video=SVIDEO-1:d"