my pleasure
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X
> Thank you very much, Eunice. That worked perfectly! Everything runs like
a
> dream!
>
> Roger
>
> PS. Mandrake rocks!
>
>
>
> Eunice Thompson wrote:
>
> > Roger,
> > When you install in expert mode, you have to make sure that you install
all
> > the Window Managers (I think that's the term),when it gives you that
list of
> > packages you want to install.
> > This happened to me also. The easiest way I found to correct this, was
to
> > pop the CD back in, go through the installation process again and do an
> > Upgrade,instead of an install (make sure that you've still selected the
> > expert mode and either normal or development for the type of install).
> > It won't change any of your partitions,
> > but it will allow you to add more packages.
> > When you get to that stage, just uncheck each (+) to see what's there,
and
> > select which packages you want/need. I think it's called "xwindow
manager"
> > or something like that.
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:35 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X
> >
> > > I performed a new install of MD 7.0-2 last night on my AMD K6-2 350 w/
> > > ATI xpert@play, 5.1gb, 96mb.
> > >
> > > I did an "Expert" install. It detected my nic and I correctly
> > > configured @home. (cool!) But the DrakX (i think that is what the
> > > install program is called) completely skipped over the "configure X"
> > > portion of the install.
> > >
> > > I did instruct the install to install all X-Windows programs.
> > >
> > > Xconfigurator, xconf, startx, ... none of this works (yes I ran them
as
> > > root)
> > >
> > > So now I have just regular text mode. I need to get X working.
> > >
> > > What is the easiest way to do this? I want to use KDE. On a previous
> > > install, x worked fine and installed all the great icons in KDE. The
> > > only problem was my nic was not being detected, so I did a re-install.
> > > Not the nic is fine, @home is fine, but X does not work.
> > >
> > > Please help.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > > Roger
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roger Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Toronto, Ontario
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
