Slacko64 7 no video on start

[danleff]

Long time user, first time posting in a while. Currently did a frugal installation of Slacko 7 on my machine and added Slacko to Fedora 34's grub. I usually do a full installation, but apparently this is no longer an option. I boot into a console screen, xwin fails. I need to run xorgwizard to reset the video driver and resolution. This happens on every boot into Slacko, xorgwizard needs to be run despite things looking ok in the etc/xorg.conf file.
Any obvious things that I should be looking for?

Yes, I use Puppy as a backup os and rescue environment, and just to have fun. Thanks developers!

Processor 8x AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor
Memory 32816MB (370MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Slacko64 Puppy - 7.0
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 25 May 2021 05:22:00 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Chip description:
0d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)

X Server: Xorg Driver used: modesetting
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

[bigpup]

With the hardware you have, (Processor 8x AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor) and the motherboard needed to run it.

The fact that Slacko64 7.0 is using a series 4 Linux kernel, is not providing much support for the hardware.
You could change to using a series 5 kernel.

Do you know how to use change_kernels program?

There is a 5.4.86 kernel for Slacko64 7.0 here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/h ... 64.tar.bz2

May be even better to move to using Slacko64 8.2
viewtopic.php?f=118&t=2893

[danleff]

Thank you for the quick response. I'll try to change the kernel. I have not done this before, but am willing to give it a go. Is there a tutorial on this?

Update...found how to do this, Success! Working perfectly now. Thanks for your help! The new kernel did the trick.

[bigpup]

Thanks for feedback and your results!
I got one correct today!