Mandriva GUI does not work.

[Granpire Viking Man]

I have Mandriva 2007.1, and the GUI does not start. I come to the graphical login screen, and logging on causes a freeze. I have tried starting KDE and GNOME sessions and both do not work. If I go in the console and enter startx, it tells me something like:could not load /lib/xorg/<something>/<something> and could not load something else. It also says:OS BUILD version: Unknown., but this might be normal. It started when we downloaded a big bunch of Mandriva updates, and on the GRUB screen, it showed linux-legacy, and legacy-1.6.something. When we tried booting into linux-legacy, it froze and we had to restart. When we tried to boot into Normal Mandriva 2007.1, we got that problem. Please help!

[DOllaBillz217]

Not sure by try to set your screen resolution to something a little lower in your /etc/X11.xorg.conf file just to see if you can boot into the GUI then. When you did the updates did something get screwed up with your video driver?


UPDATE:

You can also look at this post http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...esolution.html and see if it helps you. Devils_casper does a great job at explaining a different way of doing this

[Granpire Viking Man]

Hmmm... Just the night before I ran the video card setup tool, and it told me: there is a proprietary driver for your video board, do you wish to use it? Before that KDE kept crashing and the window bars kept disappearing. When I tried to refresh the window manager, it just got a white screen and I had to log out. So I have had problems before, but not this big.

[DOllaBillz217]

I would suggest re-installing your video drivers and see if that makes a different. Sounds like something might have gotten screwed up during the update

[devils casper]

Hmmm... Just the night before I ran the video card setup tool, and it told me: there is a proprietary driver for your video board, do you wish to use it? Before that KDE kept crashing and the window bars kept disappearing. When I tried to refresh the window manager, it just got a white screen and I had to log out. So I have had problems before, but not this big.

Boot up in Single use mode and post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[Granpire Viking Man]

OK, Mandriva has been reinstalled, and the problem seems to be fixed. KDE stills crashes from time to time, though. I tried to edit the xorg.conf file, but I could not quit vi, because I'm not very good with the terminal. Strangely, the background keeps going blank. It's acting strange. BTW, I think that it was about the xorg.conf file. In it it said something about 1200x1024 preferred mode, and our monitor is just 1024x768. That might have fixed it, but I couldn't get vi to quit.

[devils casper]

You can use pico or nano instead of vi.
In vi, press Esc key to exit from any mode. Full Colon ( : ) and x to save and exit.