What is the graphic card in your system e.g. Matrox G450 On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 10:54 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: > I've dug myself into a hole and hope someone here can guide me out. > 1st try: Upgrade (from 9.0) install seemed to work ok, but after > rebooting, couldn't start graphical desktop and reverted to command line. > 2nd try: Guessed there was a problem with my video driver. Reran same > upgradel, but tried to fiddle with display settings in final config > screen. Whatever I tried (several re-upgrades since my keyboard did not > respond after the error), got "An error occurred: could not open font > 'fixed' Try to change some parameters. > After extensive searching on Web, tried commenting (the only) fontpath > line (had "unix:1" in it in the XF86Config file. > 3rd try: upgrade ran OK, but when I logged in as (non-root) user, got an > error re. not enough room in /tmp/ and KDE couldn't start. > Logged in as root, KDE started. So tried to remove some packages to free > up some space for /tmp/ > Big mistake: marked other desktops (not KDE/Gnome) for deletion, after I > hit OK, noticed KDE and Gnome had checkmarks next to them (set by > Mandrake?). Tried to cancel... > 4th try: re-upgrade, only get command line logon. > 5th try: Full (not upgrade) install, still only get command line logon. > 6th try: Rescue, rebuild Linux boot, get error: "fatal open > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk No such file or directory" > > So now, whatever I choose from the boot menu (BTW, I'm dual-booting with > Win2k), I get command line only with (I believe) a ...-19mdk kernel. > > Sorry if this post is too long, but I thought it would help to be as > specific as I could be. > Can anybody help?!
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