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Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
  • h3dmanh3dman July 2010
    Hi!

    I am a complete n00b at this so bare with me :)

    I have downloaded the cooked, and the stable version, of SliTaz and installed each one on a usb-drive. It doesnt matter wich one of the versions I boot from, when I've logged in as "tux" and then type "startx" the screen says:

    "The 'tazx' application helps you to configure your X session."

    From here I can choose:
    xterm 800x600x16
    xorg Install Xorg
    text Disable X autostart
    quit Quitter

    If I choose "xterm" I get the following message:

    /usr/bin/tazx: line 441: Xvesa: not found
    xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0

    If I choose "xorg" I only get the option "quit Quitter". When I choose to quit I get the message:
    /usr/bin/startx: exec: line 11: /home/tux/.xsession: not found

    If I log in as root and type "startx" this shows up:

    Fatal server error:
    Unrecognized option: -shadow
    DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus.hAVJE2s.......etc.
    DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=2032
    Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.
    root@slitaz:/#
    (lxpanel:1995): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

    If I run tazx as root and then choose xterm 800x600x16 this is what I get:

    /usr/bin/tazx: line 441: Xvesa: not found
    xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s

    I am using a Dell Studio 1537 laptop with a ATI Radeon HD 3400 graphic card running Windows 7. The goal is to install SliTaz on my harddrive so I can dual boot.

    What am I doing wrong? I thought I could just boot from the usb-drive and then install it on my harddrive.. but as I said.. I'm a complete n00b at this.

    Any feedback is appreciated.

    Thank you!
  • h3dmanh3dman July 2010
    I'm such an ass!! Sorry for posting this as I soon after found a solution to the problem!!

    Thanks to tikbalang who provided with the link to the xvesa-version of SliTaz under the following discussion: "installing on pentium II, very old (1997)"

    http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/3.0/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso

    When booting from this image it works perfectly!!
    Thank you!!
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