[Preston] Re: Booting up Mandrake 9.2

[entwisi]

To start the GUI you need to start what is called your X server.

The simplest way of doing this is 'startx' This will start an X server
process. What you also need is called a Window manager. You should have
at least one installed by default. Popular ones you may have heard of
are KDE, Gnome and IceWM although there are loads more to choose from.  
By default MDK will automatically start KDE but can specify another when
starting X like this. 'startx gnome'

In order to make all this happen automatically you can set the init
value. Your system is currently set to use a runlevel of 3 which is
basically full network availability but no gui. runlevel 5 includes a
GUI

When you are starting the X server any errors are logged to
/var/log/XF86-Config-4.log ( or something very similar) If there are two
similar log files you can tell which is the latest by using ls -lrt
which will show the latest files at the bottom of the list.

If X fails to start post up the above log file so we can see what has
failed.

Ian

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 01:26, Granville Cousins wrote:
> Hello PLUG,
> 
>   I have just installed Mandrake 9.2 onto my Laptop. When the bootup
>   sequence begins everything goes well until it reaches a stage where
>   it asks me for my localhost login. I give my login name and then my
>   password. This is accepted but then the screen goes down to a
>   command prompt [name at localhost name]$ and I can't boot into the
>   Graphical Desktop of Mandrake. What command should I give to do
>   this. I am a newby with Linux so please keep any replies as simple
>   as poss.
> 
>   Thanks.