Guest Snump Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I've installed Mandrake before, but now its giving me trouble. I think it has something to do with what I name the machine on the network. The install goes perfectly, but after it reboots it can't start X. I'm installing Gnome only. I'm at work now, and I don't have the machine. One thing that confuses me during the install is the fully qualified name. I don't have a domain on my network, so what should I call the machine? Before, what would happen was, I would change the DNS setting and X would blow up. After reinstalling the nvidia drivers it would be back up, but with incorrect DNS settings. My DNS settings weren't sticking. I wanted to start from scratch and possibly try another distro, but decided to stick with Mandrake. Hence I'm reinstalling from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mandrakemanj Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 Thats is bad that happend to me too I had to Reinstall too 5 times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 Could you give us some more details? "It won't start X" is a bit too vague to troubleshoot :). /var/log/xorg.0.log would be helpful, for a start, and also possibly dmesg. I very much doubt your network hostname has much to do with it (FWIW, when there's no domain or anything, I just use .local.net). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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