lawsonrc Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 BACKGROUND: I have MDK10 OE Powerpak downloaded from Mandrake Club. I tried installing the NVIDIA driver for 3d Acceleration; however I wreaked havoc on attempting shutdown, so I did CTRL+ALT+F2 and killed X to go into init 3. I then uninstalled it with the command: nvidia-installer --uninstall, which worked correctly. PROBLEM: Now whenever I boot into MDK10, it boots only into runlevel 3 and won't allow me to boot automatically into runlevel 5. Everytime, I have to login in as user and then "startx". And when I want to shutdown or reboot, I get back into a terminal screen have have to login as root and type "shutdown -r now", shutdown -h now", or "reboot". This is becoming a real pain. Do I need to copy a file or log for further help? All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Have you tried changing the settings in MCC? MCC - Boot - Drakboot - 'launch graphical environment when system starts' (9.1 setup). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Hey Spineynorman, Superthanks! In Mandrake 10 OE it is different: MCC > Boot > Autologin > "Launch the Graphical Login when your system starts" and "No, I don't want autologin" (unless you really do). There is no more Drakthis, Drakthat. I tried several options and Autologin was my last one. So for me it wasn't a logical place to put it. Maybe for others it is. I sure liked the MCC in 9.x much better in two columns. I hate the new one that is trying to mimic Widows 9x and XP's Control Panel...and not successfully so. Much obliged! (as my country North-Texas grandmother used to say from late 1880's to 1975). Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 make sure /etc/inittab has 5 as the default id:5:initdefault: and that the dm service is set to run at boot. service -s | grep dm chkconfig --list | grep dm MCC>System>Services Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Will this solve the logout, reboot problem when the odd screen with the squiggly lines freezes up my computer and I have to do a forced shutdown with the power button??? :unsure: :wacko: :bvc: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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