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I'm currently trying to get the hang of linux.. I used to be a very big Windows user and now I'm trying to dive into the linux world... anyway with ...
- 09-02-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Evil Black Screen! LOL
I'm currently trying to get the hang of linux.. I used to be a very big Windows user and now I'm trying to dive into the linux world... anyway with my problem........ I was trying to install 2 graphic cards (Voodoo 3 and Nvida Gforce 2 DRR), I got it to work in linux but when it restarted it took me to a black screen that said, "Mandrake Linux Release 10.0 (Community) for i586 Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk on an i686 /tty1" It asked for my user name and password then took me to a "Dos" looking thing. How do i get back into the KDE gui? Anyway can someone help a helpless NooB? LOL thanks!
- 09-02-2005 #2Linux Engineer
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Code:startx
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- 09-05-2005 #3Just Joined!
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If startx doesn't work then it looks like your X configuration is not setup to handle the 2 graphics cards. You should login to the command line and run the command 'XFDrake' to bring up the display configuration program in text mode. See here: http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandriv...l/xfdrake.html
Once you've done that you can set the system to boot up graphically automaticaly in the Mandrake Control Centre (see http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandriv...autologin.html) or alternatively just manually change the relevant line in /etc/inittab if its not already like this:
Code:id:5:initdefault:
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