raysr Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Just installed MDK 9.2 off purchased CDs and upon boot-up file check I see the subject. Then Linux goes to black screen and wants "local host login". Didn't know what it wanted so I put my user name in and password and got only this [***@localhost***]$. First time user. What has happened here? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 You don't have X set to start automatically. Try the command startx and see what happens. If that gets you to a graphical desktop, you can go to Mandrake Control Center and click on Boot Configuration and set it up to start X automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 BTW: "Bringing up Interface eth0 FAILED" has nothing to do with this. That is your ethernet card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysr Posted November 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Thanks for the reply, I'll try that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysr Posted November 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 That failed. Got "exec failed for/etc/X11/x(errno 13) giving up" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 That means you have a problem with the configuration for X. When you did the install, did you check the configuration for both your video card and your monitor? What video card, monitor, motherboard, drivers, etc are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysr Posted November 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Video Card-don't know, monitor-Envision, motherboard-L7VMM2, drivers-don't know. I must have skipped the screen with the configure options, or at least some of them. Any way to go back? Reinstall w/o uninstalling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 When you log into the console at normal startup, try logging in as root instead and then run XFdrake (it's case-sensitive) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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