Subj : Re: Please read and help if you can...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : jab3
Date : Tue Sep 14 2004 04:29 pm

Snoop finally wrote on Tue September 14 2004 01:48 pm:

> I have Mandrake 10.0. I changed graphic card and messed up something when
> it asked me about new card. Now my system starts in command line.. how can
> i configure the graphic card so that it starts in X (KDE)

I'm not sure whether Mandrake 10.0 uses XOrg or XFree86, but you can try
this (if you want to do it yourself).  [I know SUSE comes with a graphical
program (SaX) that configures X for you - I don't know about Mandrake.] You
could look for these things:

xorgconfig  --> if using XOrg
xf86config  --> if using XFree86

Those programs will ask you all the questions about your graphic setup for
the X window system - i.e., keyboard, mouse, monitor, horizontal and
vertical sync, refresh rate, graphics card, card memory, and other stuff. 
So figure out what that info is.

Now, the problem could also be that you need to adjust /etc/inittab.  There
should be a line (probably the first uncommented line) like this:

id:3:initdefault:

Instead of 3 (the standard multi-user CLI runlevel), put the standard
multi-user graphical login runlevel (probably 5 in Mandrake).


Hope that helps some,
but I'm sure another will guide you better -
jab3

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