Mandriva LE 2005: No Gui

[lawsonrc]

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.

[Guest anon]

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.

[lawsonrc]

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.