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Slax linux not booting with GUI

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 23:18:54 No.1518616 View View Reply Original Report

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I got AMD FX-8800p computer for cheap (comes with a soldered-on laptop chip but at least got a free GTX-745) and I want to run Slax linux on it to just watch YouTube videos and read books/try to learn programming; no HDD, no SSD, no fancy GPU; USB-only final destination. Problem is, the bitch _does_ gives me GUI when the NVIDIA GTX-745 is connected, but throws a shit-fit when I boot without it...

The graphics driver (or the loading timing) seems to be the problem but honestly I'm way too green to connect the dots... halp and pointers for further study much appreciated. Here's the Xorg logs I get:

Working with GTX-745:
https://pastes.io/work-xorg0log
https://pastes.io/work-xorg1log

Not working (Integrated GPU: Radeon R7 AMD FX-8800P):
https://pastes.io/notwork-xorg0log
https://pastes.io/notwork-xorg1log

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 13:25:33 No.1518826 Report

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Better places to get help:
https://discord.gg/zgtpzmq
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slax-users

Looks like an issue loading drivers.
This is your error:
[ 22.605] (EE) AMDGPU(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:00:01.0: No such file or directory
[ 22.605] (EE) AMDGPU(1): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:00:01.1: No such file or directory

If you initially installed the system with the GTX inserted, then make sure you boot the installer with only the integrated GPU so it can configure that right from installation time.

If it doesn't work, ask in the official channels above. You might need to add a section to your xorg conf or install some package(s)

If that fails, use an easier distro and become less of a noob.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 03:31:38 No.1518895 Report

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>>1518826
Yeah, maybe I do need to install AMD driver or mess with Xorg and fluxbox conf files. Gonna try that and read up related topics. Thanks for your help! I have an old USB memory with an older Slax. I made it like 6 years ago, used it for some months then I wanted to play vidya... and jumped to Windows. That's what I'm using right now. Problem with that older Slax is can't/don't know how to upgrade packages; apt gives me errors and sheeeit. Honestly, a mess future me will have to deal with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 01:19:02 No.1519240 Report

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I always recommend a backup and reinstall over fucking around with what conflicted with which and so forth, making a little script to put things back the way you had them the first time, but then again I am literally running Gentoo so maybe I'm not the one to ask

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