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Hi to everyone!

First post/first time/first go at linux.

 

Here's my problem:

Upon startup with the live CD starts up but at the end of the progressbar indication it goes black with the following on screen:

 

Mandriva Linux release 2008.1 (Official) for i586

Kernel 2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb on a Dual-processor i686 / tty1

localhost login: _ (blink-blink)

 

Can someone please advice me?

 

Best newbie regards

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This is basically just showing you a console window and nothing else. It should have started X and Gnome/KDE depending on which Mandriva One disk you downloaded. However, as it hasn't chances are that it's had problems recognising your hardware.

 

Can you give some details on your hardware, mainly graphics card, since this is most likely the cause of why it's not started.

 

Oh, and welcome to the board! :beer:

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Try pressing ALT-F7 first in case it's running in the background. If you get a blank screen or nothing happens, press ALT-F1 again to get back to the console window.

 

Then you could try logging in from the console as root, hopefully that root doesn't have some password set, and then run:

 

XFdrake

 

from the command line, and reconfigure xorg to use vesa instead of whatever it's attempted to use. Then, once this has been done, try:

 

service dm restart

 

which should restart the display manager and switch to the gui.

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Nice one :thumbs:

 

Glad it sorted it. However, once you do a full install on your machine (if this is your plan), then it should work normally for the future. It's just the LiveCD that's unable to do it automatically for you. It can happen though if a particular card isn't supported, or gets auto-detected incorrectly.

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