I had a problem like that before. Around the same time I had a ram card that popped out of its slot. I can't remember if that was the cause. Maybe the wrong driver was installed. I can't remember.

john

Just on the off chance that my copy of the live CD was bad I downloaded it again.

Same result. It loads up, allows me to login and reboots if I try to do anything.

The problem may be with xorg but I can't get into terminal mode to try anything.

Roger

Please try the following, boot ZenLive and press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get into a console.  At login prompt enter root as user and ZenLive as password.

Once logged type the following command to get mouse support on the console:


Now try moving the mouse and clicking on the screen, does it reboot?

No, it says there is no such file.

As a side issue, the colors are killing me. Grey on blue is nearly invisible, especially on the microscopic font used.

Roger

Add another distro that works "out of the box".

It's Wolvix, another slack-based distro. Maybe the developers here should take a look at it to see why Zenwalk has so many problems.

Roger

Which video card are you using?

Could you post the output of lspci?

The video card is a Voodoo 3 with 16384k RAM

How can I get to the file?

Roger

Never mind, I found it.

Too much to retype but it recognises my VIA chipset and the Voodoo 3 card.

Is there anything specific you need?

Roger

Version 4.4.1 works like a charm.

Roger