IBM Thinkpad 600X (very old) no X - login screen

[anttel]

Hi,
After the succesfull installation on a Thinkpad T23 and Thinkpad X31 where everything works like a sunshine there seems to be a problem with starting X to the login screen on my Thinkpad 600x.

This problem doesn't occur so far using a Sidux installation from last year. This Thinkpad 600X is used mainly as printer server for my Laserjet 4P (also fairly old) parallel printer. I'd like to switch from Sidux to Salix als on this machine.

When I add the xres=1024x768 irqpoll and acpi=force options at startup time X doesn't startup either. What else can I do

I tried Salix 13.1.1 live and Salix 13.1. Both show no X. What else can I do?

best regards,

Anttel

[gapan]

what graphics card do you have?

[anttel]

Hello,
lspci gives the following output:
anton@kast:~$ lxpci
bash: lxpci: opdracht niet gevonden
anton@kast:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: IBM 20H2999 PCI Docking Bridge (rev 09)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX]
08:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 01)
08:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 01)
09:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
09:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
09:00.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0d:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-1480 / APA-1480 (rev 03)
0f:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
anton@kast:~$

It\s a neomagic nm2360
regards,
Anttel

[gapan]

Do you have xf86-video-neomagic installed? No idea if your card is actually supported by it though. You can try to force using that or the vesa driver by copying /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and editing it appropriately.

[anttel]

Hello Gapan,
Is it possible to choose the Vesa driver when using Salix 13.1.1 live?
regards,
anttel

[gapan]

I'm guessing you can boot to init 3 from the grub boot menu, make the changes to xorg.conf that are needed, start X, and then use persistence to save your changes (you'll probably need to redo them the first time you reboot) after you select persistence).