Hello,
Hope everybody is having a fine day/night. I am trying to install
Mandrake Linux 9.1 and everything goes fine until it finishes
install and reboots, it cannot load KDE properly. It tries
to load, but then the screen goes off and on until it is
replaced by the login console (not X). I tried
reinstalling several times, , but the problem persists. I logged in
and issued startx gnome and it worked (as well with Enlightenment), but
KDE applications do not work. The xsession-errors file is 6 pages
long, but it comes down to: "Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource
busy." My computer specs: Epox mobo AMD Duron 700Mhz, on-board
sound (Apollo Super AC97 Via ) Video card is a regular, generic S3
card that the system identifies as 86c368 Trio 3D/2x which the system
plugs and play through the installation with no further problems, that is,
until it finishes installation and reboots. I am confused as to what
is causing the problem.. a badly chosen XFree86 server or KDE being
"confused". I am confused myself. ;-D for I am not very
knowledgeable about the ins and outs of this nice OS.
| What I think is that the Mandrake install program not plug and
playing the right device driver for the video card, or more likely,
the driver is missing from the install files. I looked for
the XFree86 log file EVERYWHERE, but I could not find it. It is
possible Mandrake changed the log name and location. (Mandrake is
notorious for doing this). This same video card used to be
supported by Mandrake Linux 8.0 very nicely. I have no
idea how to "install" this driver or if I should install the version
of XFree86 that came with 8.0. I would be greateful if
somebody could point me in the right direction on what should I do and I will
read and break it and fix it myself. I just want to avoid doing crazy
stuff that won't do any good. ;-D
(Oh, and KDE is not the only graph environ with display problems, it is just
the one that has been the most affected, I tried startx kde but ICeWM comes
on, and the widgets are all wrong and windows that try to open dissapear in
a fraction of a second, stuff like that. So far Enlightenment is the best
behaved. Other than the titles of the windows being somewhat misplaced in the
title bar, there is nothing wrong. Of course, kde-dependent x-programs
won't display, they come up and go real fast).
Any help, suggestion or reference/link to a solution or
clarification would be greatly appreciated. If anybody wants to help
and requires more information, please let me know.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Sarina
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