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| 250351 | 2004-07-07 04:23:00 | Hi everyone Today I decided to boot up the Old Linux computer to use it as an intenet terminal. It turned on, booted up as Mandrake 8.0, and then I realised why it has been turned off for the last 2 months. It eventually loaded fully, and I got to the login screen. All it showed was an extremely pixelated picture of Tux, my hardware, and a command prompt to log in. I logged in as myself, and found myself in a command prompt world. Wondering what I could do to get at least a basic GUI I tried root. Same thing. Half an hour later the Hard Drive had been formatted, and Linux was Reinstalled with what it had before, plus KDE and Gnome (before I opted for "other GUI" only). I logged in as myself again after setting KDE as the default, and I was in command prompt world again! What should I do now? All I want to do with it is Internet Station, file server, Distributed Computing and maybe Apache/SQL fot phpBB testing. What am I supposed to type to get Gnome? ILikeLinux suggested "xf86config". I tried it, and wrote it to "/etc/X11/X" and it complains it can't find the file it wrote 10 seconds ago! Please help, I want to be able to browse the internet while my siblings play games on the other computer. MM |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 250352 | 2004-07-07 04:34:00 | If you got it to write to /etc/X11/X then try: cp /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/XF86Config cp /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Last I used Mandrake it used XF86Config-4... Try just the first cp command and if it still doesnt work, post back the exact error. For now, use lynx or links2 ;-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 250353 | 2004-07-07 04:37:00 | > If you got it to write to /etc/X11/X then try: > cp /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/XF86Config > cp /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Last I used Mandrake it used XF86Config-4... Try just > the first cp command and if it still doesnt work, > post back the exact error. will try > For now, use lynx or links2 ;-) ??? |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 250354 | 2004-07-07 05:23:00 | Console web-browsers ;-) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 250355 | 2004-07-08 02:03:00 | Try startx first. It might be lurking there ready for you. You would have been given the option to configure the X-Window system in the installation. Try DrakConf. That should let you configure the system. Try XFree86 -config hjat should configure it for you ... which might work. Another way is to start Knoppix, then mcopy /etc/X11/XF86Conf-4 a:, then in Mandrake, mcopy a:\XF86Conf-4 /etc/X11 . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 250356 | 2004-07-08 02:18:00 | >For now, use lynx or links2 or "links2 -g" hmmm Text based internet with graphics..... ;\;\;\;\;\ |
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