[Solved]Black Screen! Help me :(

Archiee · 2009-12-03 21:37:10

Hi,

my Arch installed on Toshiba Portege M100 can't start xfce 4 or slim.

But from beginning:
Firstly I used kdemod 3.5 for 1 year. But my Toshiba got slower and slower.
So I decided to switch to xfce4 due to performance benefits.
So I installed xfce 4 with a

# pacman -S xfce4
# pacman -S xfce4-goodies

Then I started it with

startxfce4

And it came... NOTHING. Only Black Screen.
After that I read on archwiki that I should install DBUS :

# pacman -S dbus

Anyway, I restarted.

Then I installed slim as my new Loginmanager.
I added Slim to /etc/rc.d as a daemon.
But unfortunately I didn't create a ~/.xinitrc file (didn't know).

So, after that I restarted again and it started Slim but only a black screen appeared.
And I can do nothing such as ALT + F2,F3...

So my question is how to get to console?

Last edited by Archiee (2009-12-06 22:48:10)

deej · 2009-12-03 21:49:22

Try CTL+ALT F2/3/4/5/6 - F7 to get back to your black screen

Deej

Archiee · 2009-12-03 22:03:52

Thanks deej for your suggestion but unfortunately it doesn't work.

I figured out another problem:

It wants to load module "eepro100" but it fails..

tavianator · 2009-12-03 22:13:04

Append "1" to the kernel line in grub to enter single-user mode, login as root, and remove slim from /etc/rc.conf.

Archiee · 2009-12-04 10:56:25

Thx for help! You saved my day!

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[Solved]Black Screen! Help me :(

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