On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Paul John Kiener wrote:
Hi Paul,
You probably told the installer to check the video modes. I have heard
(and once also experienced) that sometimes probing the video card for X is
not a good idea all of the time. Depends on your hardware a lot, so I
can't tell when you should and when you should not.
If you have logged in, you can start X with
startx
If you can't get anywhere further than the grey screen and the x's, press
ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the x-server. From there you need to log in as
root and run Xconfigurator to redo/finish the X setup. Do -not- let the
system probe the video card at the point it asks to. Finished
succesfully? Then you can log in as you again (or me, which is the
same) and startx should get you going then.
If you can post the type of videocard you have, perhaps some people can
already tell what pitfalls you have to be aware of if there are any.
If things go well installing X, and you want to have the graphic login,
you need to log in as root again, and change the file /etc/inittab,
changing the initdefault from 3 (text login) to 5 (graphical login).
Good luck
Paul
>x-windows.
> and i wait for the screen to load. when it does, first a blank black
>screen comes out, then a gray screen with x's on it comes out. i
>waited, but nothing happend, so i shutdown the comp. when i turned it
>on, linux mandrake loaded to this... it prompted me to enter my
>localhost user/pass. i did. then this comes out [paul@localhost
>paul]$
> is that normal? it's like a dos type thing. and from there, i don't
>know how to run any of the programs, or if that's where i can access
>x-windows. what can i do?
>thanks and God bless everyone! peace!
>
>Paul John "Stiff-man" Kiener
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