I've been running
Mandrake 7.0 for a while, I'm dual-booting with Windows using a floppy boot (at
the moment).
Recently I went to
boot Mandrake and it boots fine up to the point where it flips into graphics
mode, where it would hang and the screen would go black.
I managed to boot
just to a shell login prompt and ran xf86config, which I thought was the right
thing to do.
However, now it just
boots to a shell login prompt every time. If I do "startx" it freezes
(until I do a ctrl-Z and then kill the process).
How do I get back
into the graphical login (and get it working?)
The only thing I
know that's changed since the last time it worked was I added a firewall to my
system, so I know that I need to change my IP address and TCP/IP settings, but I
don't remember how to do that from the shell, the desktop would be so much
easier. I really don't know if this is related to my problem (it would be
really weak if your desktop quits just because you have a bad IP address).
Any help is
appreciated!
-Todd
