On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 16:36, Bill Mudry wrote: > This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1. > Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel > took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to > work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue > screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but > there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work > at all. This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch > of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt. > > The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even > another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been > able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at > least the machine can take commands. > > I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my > field of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui > screen and browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What > recommendations do you have? How long did you wait? I upgraded my daughter's pc to 10.1 from 10 and on bootup, it did the same. I left it for apprx. 10 minutes, then the graphical login appeared. Never did it again, so might just be configuring? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free
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