I have just installed Mandriva Limited Edition2005 on my laptop (emachines M5116). I already have XP and Suse (hda1 = XP, hda3 = Suse, hda5 = Mandriva, hda6 = swap, hda7 = data).
I can boot up and login to Mandriva fine as root, and connect to the internet with no problem (Speedtouch USB modem).
On booting, I get the display manager with welcome to local host, username and password and I can put myself in as root with my root password. This takes me no delay to the splashscreen and kde loads as normal. When I do this with my user name and user password I get my splashscreen background and the eggtimer doing somersaults on the screen but nothing else. It stays that way, and does not come up with the splash screen and proceed to load up kde (or any other window manager).
I've tried checking everything I can think of but cannot find anything to tell why I can't get logged on as user.
Any ideas?
Don