Install Problem [solved]

[Guest Morty]

Hi there,

 

I was wondering if some kind soul could take pity on a Newbie. I've installed Mandriva Free 2007 with the 4 CDs on a relatively old (AMD Duron 1300) PC where I would like it to live in peace with a NT4 partition.

 

Installation went well. Everything done - no networking since just want a workstation. On board graphics driver (SiS630) and monitor tested and worked lovely during installation (800x600 res 256 colours - trying to be on the safe side here). Reboot seemed to go well

 

Got message "Starting display manager" and then screen went blank. Seems indicative of a problem with xstart but all graphics were working fine in installation.

 

I'm lost - can anyone suggest something pretty please,

 

M

[ianw1974]

Chances are something wrong with the X configuration. When you get the blank screen, do this:

 

Press CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console prompt.

Login as root and enter your root password when prompted.

 

From the console prompt, then type:

 

mcc

 

and then use the arrow keys to reconfigure your display, and tab key to move between options.

[Guest Morty]

Ian,

 

Thanks for the reply. Actually rather embarrassingly my problem is the same as Kingara's about 10 posts down since I too also have an 810 L motherboard. I've now solved this by installing the xorg generic VESA.

 

Before slinking off never to show my face again, I would say that I did go through 3 or 4 pages of posts looking for something relevant but I just 'forgot' that I had an 810 L motherboard - my brain must have turned to mush.

 

Anyway, many apologies for timewasting and thanks for the response,

 

M

[ianw1974]

No worries, glad you got it sorted