Travis Crook wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:27:04 -0400
eric jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I upgraded to 2006 the other day and, to make a long story short, I
shut down my computer improperly which caused me to get a ton of hard
drive errors.
I did a fresh install today but I can't get things working right.
When I did the original install I got it to boot and start KDE. Now
that I've done a new install it boots to to a command line. If I tell
it to startx, it refuses, saying it can't find any screens. It also
indicates it's an X.org problem.
When you ran the installer, did you specify all of your settings for
your video card and monitor?
Hi Travis,
Thanks for your help.
No I didn't. I've never had to do that before and I've been running
Mandriva/Mandrake since 8.0. It always detected that stuff fine. It must
have found it okay on the upgrade I did on Sunday but it's not finding
it on the clean install I did today.
Could be that you don't have a "screen" configured for X. Try running
"X -configure" as root from the command prompt. It will generate a
test xorg.conf file for you to try (run X -config /root/xorg.conf.new)
and see if a blue screen with a mouse cursor appears. If so, the new
file should work. I believe it copies the necessary info
into /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which is the system default for X.
I didn't get a blue screen. Just an error message saying it was an
invalid argument.
Eric
HTH
Any ideas what could be wrong? How come it worked on Sunday but it
won't work anymore?
Eric
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