No desktop in Slackware Live Daw
by fredmyra from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5ECAC)
I am trying to get started with Slackware with the purpose of using Audacity and Rosegarden.
My previous experience with Slackware consists of having been using Slackware Live (Matte) on a persistent usb and on a full install in my HP Probook 4510s for a couple months and last week I finally managed to install Slackware 14,2 on the Probook, multibooting with Slackware Live and some other distros.
I have yet to build and install a package in Slackware - still reading and googling about it.
In order to prepare myself to try building audacity in a favourable environment, today I prepared (via command dd) two usb sticks, with fresh downloaded Slackware Daw Live and Studioware.
They both boot nicely on the ProBook, which with only a Core 2 Duo and 2 GB ram is way too slow for Plasma ( I suspect it is Plasma on Studioware but I was not able to confirm it).
So I tried to boot the sticks on my mac-book 2010, which is also Core 2 Duo, but has 16 GB ram, and can run Mint, Manjaro, UbuntuStudio and Slackware Live Matte - all from usb sticks - confortably.
Slackare Daw Live boots on the mac, though only after i hacked a bit with its Grub which would not present me with a menu, but only a grub prompt. I used the boot prompt to navigate around the content of the usb, and copied the last menu entry of its grub.cfg since it was the only promising entry showed when I used command cat - which showed only a small part at the end of the file.
It booted fine at runlevel 3 - as stated in the menu entry I copied.
I could not start the desktop though, probably due to my ignorance, so I duckduckwent and found many many threads offering "new" versions of commands to boot kde and Plasma, but none worked.
The only option I could think of then was to use the same menu entry, but with runlevel 4 instead of 3, and then i got this message
Code: Starting up x11 session manager...
Hey, you don't have KDM,GDM or XDM. Can't use runlevel 4 without one these installed.So I tried Studioware on the mac, which did present me with a Grub meny, but when it booted it froze with the splash screen in the background and and a black square in the foreground in place of the Grub meny.
Will it suffice to install XDM from the Slackware Live Daw command line, in order to boot the Slackware Live Daw at runlevel 4 or at least to be able to start its desktop from command line ?
If that is the case that would be the first time I try to install a package in a Slackware environment, so I would be thankful for any guidelines, I am still having trouble with simple things like checking if XDM is part of the official Slackware or if I must look up for it somewhere else.
Or have I missed something and the point is that the dd-made usb is meant only to set-up Live Daw on a persistent usb stick, from command mode?
My previous experience with Slackware consists of having been using Slackware Live (Matte) on a persistent usb and on a full install in my HP Probook 4510s for a couple months and last week I finally managed to install Slackware 14,2 on the Probook, multibooting with Slackware Live and some other distros.
I have yet to build and install a package in Slackware - still reading and googling about it.
In order to prepare myself to try building audacity in a favourable environment, today I prepared (via command dd) two usb sticks, with fresh downloaded Slackware Daw Live and Studioware.
They both boot nicely on the ProBook, which with only a Core 2 Duo and 2 GB ram is way too slow for Plasma ( I suspect it is Plasma on Studioware but I was not able to confirm it).
So I tried to boot the sticks on my mac-book 2010, which is also Core 2 Duo, but has 16 GB ram, and can run Mint, Manjaro, UbuntuStudio and Slackware Live Matte - all from usb sticks - confortably.
Slackare Daw Live boots on the mac, though only after i hacked a bit with its Grub which would not present me with a menu, but only a grub prompt. I used the boot prompt to navigate around the content of the usb, and copied the last menu entry of its grub.cfg since it was the only promising entry showed when I used command cat - which showed only a small part at the end of the file.
It booted fine at runlevel 3 - as stated in the menu entry I copied.
I could not start the desktop though, probably due to my ignorance, so I duckduckwent and found many many threads offering "new" versions of commands to boot kde and Plasma, but none worked.
The only option I could think of then was to use the same menu entry, but with runlevel 4 instead of 3, and then i got this message
Code: Starting up x11 session manager...
Hey, you don't have KDM,GDM or XDM. Can't use runlevel 4 without one these installed.So I tried Studioware on the mac, which did present me with a Grub meny, but when it booted it froze with the splash screen in the background and and a black square in the foreground in place of the Grub meny.
Will it suffice to install XDM from the Slackware Live Daw command line, in order to boot the Slackware Live Daw at runlevel 4 or at least to be able to start its desktop from command line ?
If that is the case that would be the first time I try to install a package in a Slackware environment, so I would be thankful for any guidelines, I am still having trouble with simple things like checking if XDM is part of the official Slackware or if I must look up for it somewhere else.
Or have I missed something and the point is that the dd-made usb is meant only to set-up Live Daw on a persistent usb stick, from command mode?