I have just finished installing Zenwalk 6.4 on a P3 with 256mb of memory on an old laptop this past weekend. The problem that I run into is X11. When the computer rebooted I just got a blank screen and nothing else. Eventually I was able to boot into the CLI instead of the gui screen. I spent about about 2 hours trying to get it configure but was unsuccessful. I tried running xorgconfig but there was no such a file. I tried to make some manual changes to the config file but I was still not able to get it to work. I'm familiar with Slackware and Vectorlinux but not Zenwalk. How do you reconfigure X11/videocard?

Any help would be appreciated.

We need more information:
1. Which graphics hardware are you using?
2. Which driver are you using?
3. Have you tried Zenwalk 7?

Tobi, I have no idea what graphics card it has. All I know is that one of them is a Sony Vaio F630 and the other one is a Sony Vaio F520. Is there an easy way to configure X11 on Zenwalk?

Running the command lspci in a terminal should provide information to identify the video card.

A ha! Frankbell you are the man... we got the info. Here is what I got:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i7d (rev 5d)

How do I configure my laptop to run X11?

Guys, I'm still unable to properly configure X11. The command that zenwalk offers is of no help. Any ideas?

Sorry, don't know anything about trident cards. Have you tried to generate an xorg.conf file withas root? It will generate a file named xorg.conf.new that you can use as base, or it will throw some errors which might be helpful to solve your problem.

Tobi, I have tried that but is a no go. It didn't work. I'm going to give it another shot tonight but if I cannot get it to work I will have to move away from Zenwalk. I really want to give it a shot but if I cannot fix this issue I will have to look somewhere else. Thanks for your help.

I tried a couple of things today but couldn't get X11 to work properly so I am giving up on Zenwalk. Thanks for your help and goodbye.