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I have installed the latest version of Mandriva and all went well. When I boot, I get a blank blue screen with two white windows on it (console style) where I can type text commands. No graphic desktop. Running startx tells me that the display server is already operating and if I load Firefox, I see graphic images and it runs fine. But no graphic desktop.

 

I figured out how to get to the Control Center but when playing around in there, I clicked on Display Logs. That brought up a window which contains logs of everything that I do, but it sits over the Control Center window which cannot, therefore, be accessed. The window containing the logs cannot apparently be moved or resized. How do I get rid of it?

 

And without the menus on the graphic display, I am forced to do everything using the command line - and I'm a newbie!! Imagine! How do I get to a file manager or text editor so that I can add or remove files and edit them?

 

Thx.

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Welcome to MUB, which window manager did you select to use on installation i.e. kde, gnome or something else?

 

 

Beats me! :) The install was pretty automatic and I don't remember choosing a windows manager. I did updates and installed a bunch of kde and gnome stuff. When I type kde or gnome in the console window, I get command not found.

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Using an old computer I am trying to learn Linux on. :) only 128M RAM. Hope it's enough!

It's enough to learn Linux on, but not enough to use KDE or Gnome with Mandriva. I would suggest you try Xubuntu, and even with that you will have to use the alternate install Cd to install with a 128 MB of RAM.

http://www.xubuntu.org/get#requirements

You could also try Puppy Linux:

http://www.puppylinux.org/

 

I suggest these because I have used them both on older systems.

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Using an old computer I am trying to learn Linux on. :) only 128M RAM. Hope it's enough!

It's enough to learn Linux on, but not enough to use KDE or Gnome with Mandriva. I would suggest you try Xubuntu, and even with that you will have to use the alternate install Cd to install with a 128 MB of RAM.

http://www.xubuntu.org/get#requirements

You could also try Puppy Linux:

http://www.puppylinux.org/

 

I suggest these because I have used them both on older systems.

 

Xubuntu requires 192M RAM to install so I think I will give Puppy a try. If Fred Langa likes it, it's got to be good!

 

Thanks to all who helped. I'll let you all know how it goes.

 

thebluejay

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Xubuntu requires 192M RAM to install

From my Xubuntu link:

Alternate Install CD only required you to have 64MB RAM

 

I just tried Puppy. Checked the file after downloading and checksum was fine. Burnt to CD and on boot reached a certain point and then:

 

Error, cannot find puppy on idecd boot media

pupmode=1 pdev=1

exited to ramdisk command line.

 

hmmmm...

 

I was able to find the Xubuntu Alternate Install CD and I'll give that a try. Quite a difference in the download: puppy less than 100M, Xubuntu almost 700M!

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I just tried Puppy. Checked the file after downloading and checksum was fine. Burnt to CD and on boot reached a certain point and then:

 

Error, cannot find puppy on idecd boot media

pupmode=1 pdev=1

exited to ramdisk command line.

 

hmmmm...

 

I was able to find the Xubuntu Alternate Install CD and I'll give that a try. Quite a difference in the download: puppy less than 100M, Xubuntu almost 700M!

 

 

Good news! I was able to do a full install of Xubuntu and I'm amazed at the results. Runs beautifully on a 633 processor with only 128M RAM. Downloaded the Desktop Guide so I can become a Linux GEEK! :)

 

I like it. I think you have a convert.

 

Thx!

 

Jay

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