lawsonrc Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 1. When I downloaded and burned Mandriva LE 2005 (as a club member), I thought that it included the NVIDIA drivers, Realplayer, Flash, etc. 2. When installing, I chose Nvidia 4 Generic. I have an Nvidia GeForce 4 440 Go card on my laptop, a Toshiba 5005-S507. When booting into Mandriva after the installation, I couldn't get a GUI, just command line interface. I appreciate any advice. Since I'm non-technical, if you give me command lines to solve my problem, please make them very thorough with simple explanations. If there is a way to do this using the installation DVD, that would be great, too. 3. If the solution is to fix this with a generic, how do I get the following installed from the DVD: NVidia driver for 3d acceleration, Realplayer, Flash, etc. What would the URPMI commands be for each one? In advance, thanks! Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 First thing, at the command line prompt type: startx If that works ok, then just go to the control centre>>>>boot and select to have the gui start at boot. If startx fails, then type : XFdrake and try to set up your video card. Post any errors you get here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted April 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 Many thanks, Anon...last night, I had already tried "startx" with no success; however, your suggestion to type "XFdrake" did the trick. I chose the screen size at 1600 X1200 76 Mhz and the generic Nvidia 4 drive. Previously, I had a message that Xorg was "broken". My questions above about proprietary drives I will address under Software. Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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