[newbie] First install
Hi folks - I've just installed my first copy of Linux on to a Compaq laptop in a dual boot configuration. However, although it seems to boot OK , it then drops out to the black login screen - not sure if that is what it's supposed to do or not. I can then login as root or a user but when I type Startx or StartKDE it says 'unable to open display' - canot connect to X server : $Display is not set. Is this something to do with not selecting the right monitor? I couldn't find anything about laptop displays in the list. Does anyone know which i should choose? And how do i get back into the choosing monitor sequence ? thanks, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First install
This means that the environment variable $DISPLAY isn't set, try 'export DISPLAY=:0' and see if that helps. Also, going to a text login screen is what it does by default. To get it to boot into a GUI based login, you have to edit /etc/inittab and change the line: 'id:3:initdefault:' to 'id:5:initdefault:'. (note the 5 in the second one, instead of 3) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:14 AM 01/17/2002 +1300, you wrote: Hi folks - I've just installed my first copy of Linux on to a Compaq laptop in a dual boot configuration. However, although it seems to boot OK , it then drops out to the black login screen - not sure if that is what it's supposed to do or not. I can then login as root or a user but when I type Startx or StartKDE it says 'unable to open display' - canot connect to X server : $Display is not set. Is this something to do with not selecting the right monitor? I couldn't find anything about laptop displays in the list. Does anyone know which i should choose? And how do i get back into the choosing monitor sequence ? thanks, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First install
onsdagen den 16 januari 2002 22.14 skrev du: Hi I think you should try to runwhen you have logged on as root in the black window Xconfigurator or XFdrakres then you should reach the Xconfiguration options .About your screen i think you should read the hardware spec's and then choose generic LCD with the hardware resolution Have a nice day Anders Hi folks - I've just installed my first copy of Linux on to a Compaq laptop in a dual boot configuration. However, although it seems to boot OK , it then drops out to the black login screen - not sure if that is what it's supposed to do or not. I can then login as root or a user but when I type Startx or StartKDE it says 'unable to open display' - canot connect to X server : $Display is not set. Is this something to do with not selecting the right monitor? I couldn't find anything about laptop displays in the list. Does anyone know which i should choose? And how do i get back into the choosing monitor sequence ? thanks, Nick -- Anders Nilsson Styrmansvägen 12 231 32 Trelleborg Tel. 0410-334701 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] First install problems, need a clue
Long, sad story: I downloaded Mandrake distro...6.1(Cassinini) evidently is the only one available on all the mirrors I tried...for my first ever attempt at Linux. Installed it in a partition on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (5166/2500), 80 megs RAM, along with Win 95. Did the default Workstation setup. (1) First time discovered whole bunches of packages weren't there (never tried to FTP that much stuff at once before, now have a better FTP client that tells me what didn't make it) Go back, get everything, try again (2-?) Everything seems to work fine except when configuring X, made all the choices that seemed logical, gets to test and says "There is a problem with your configuration, blah, blah" Go read stuff, learn how to use console mode/vi to read stuff, learn how to run xf86config, chase thru websites and newsgroups (still haven't figured out where HOWTO's are hiding), etc., best I can get is that when I run startx something that looks like it is supposed to be KDE comes up...but it is a mangled wreck of a thing, with disconnected blocks of screen elements semi-randomly grouped about the screen, looking like a GUI Picasso might have designed. Start to believe what everything says about needing to know details about video and monitor. So... Video is CL 5436, 1mb RAM, according to docs. Monitor is CTX VL700 (1765), with horiz range of 30-70 Hz vert range of 50-160 Hz according to docs. So, go back in and run xf86config and do everything custom that isn't clearly listed, no guessing. Run startx, best results so far, clearly real screen elements (mailbox, what looks like a performance monitor graphing) but way to big and the mouse cursor is uncontrollable...and won't cycle thru screen resolutions with ctrl-alt-+/-. I'm giving it one more chance. Machine in question is at work and I am at home for the long weekend. Anybody still reading this list, I would appreciate any suggestions on things to do, FAQs to read, files to download, etc. If I can't get it done Tuesday on such a generic off-the-shelf platform, I'll have to flush it and recommend sticking with Win95/98/NT. But I really *want* this to succeed!
