Mr A V Moisseenkov wrote:
>
> Dear experts,
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a powerful computer,
> where it worked fine. Than I took the hard drive
> out and inserted it into my home computer,
> which is a Pentium 120, Cirrus Logic 5446.
>
> Now, when Linux boots and goes through all the
> text-mode messaging fine, it fails to start up
> KDE and starts blinking in the text mode.
>
> What's interesting about the blinking is that
> it is still possible to login, but the keyboard
> works only when the display is on (half a second).
It sounds like you told Mandrake to start in graphic mode when it
boots. Since it was probably setup for a different graphics chipset (or
a different resolution), it just keeps trying to restart gdm. flash,
text, flash, text sounds about right for the problem.
> I had kudzu service on and it reconfigured my
> graphics card, I believe.
>
> I am interested in:
>
> - Whether I can run KDE without reinstalling
> the OS
You'll need to rerun Xsetup to reconfigure the graphics modes since your
home system doesn't support the chipset or mode you originally
configured.
> - How do I stop Linux from starting KDE by
> default.
At the lilo prompt, enter:
linux 3
this will boot the machine into runlevel 3 (instead of 5) which is
straight text mode. You'll be able to run Xsetup from here.
> Before installing Mandrake I tried Corel Linux. It
> managed to reconfigure itself without any work or
> even notice from my side. It also configured itself
> automatically for our university network, which
> Mandrake did not do even after I tried to manually
> alter the networking configuration. Unfortunately,
> Corel Linux crashed twice in two days...
Interesting distribution, really. It worked well on one machine here,
but was absolutely horrible on the other. Now it's gone from both. It
was a freebie install anyway, it came with Corel Office 2k.
--
Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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