[Wylug-help] installation problem

[Shaun Laughey]

C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>Can anyone offer a newbie some help here with Mandrake 9.2 install?
>
>Last night I installed for the first time.  On the initial re boot though, the
>first screen font size is minute - i.e. they cannot be read and appear to be a
>series of dots smaller than the full stop within this text!!  I'm assuming it
>requests username/password (but don't know if its for root/user - I assume
>user); I enter a user name, and when I tab into what I think is the password
>box, it will not allow any text to be entered (I've checked for CAPS/NUM lock too).
>
>I'd like to probably go back to the installation process and double check the
>graphics settings but have no idea how to, or how to uninstall due to the fact
>that even though I have good vision, you literally cannot make out any of the
>screen text.
>
>Any ideas/suggestions - I've another 2 PCs to install and am just a tad
>concerened that I may end up with no usable machines!
>
>Cheers.
>
>Chris.
>
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If you press the control and alt keys together with F1 (a bit like the
windows three fingered salute CTRL+ALT+DEL) you will get a terminal screen.
 From there login as root and type
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
then
drakxconf
and go to the display settings and adjust and test them to your satisfaction

I have seen this with missing fonts because of scratched install disks -
mandrake may have given you an error that you missed during
installation. Might be worthwhile checking your install log
(/root/drakx/install.log) for errors about fonts/X and other such
things. If there are missing files use urpmi to install them from the
internet.

Shaun Laughey,

Failing over since 19:32