[Mike Nieves]

I'm installing Mandrake 10 on a friend's system but cannot get into the graphical install. I did the text install and install kde too. When I reboot after installing, It doesn't go into kde it goes straight to console. Could be a video card problem but dont know how to fix it. Can someone help me.

[tsunam]

do a lspci to show what the video card is...that will tell you what drivers it is, look to see in your xfree/xorg config to make sure everything is alright. make sure that you have kdm as a default runlevel item. etc etc. That'll keep you busy for a bit . Those are general things that could be wrong

Have you tried from the console to do a startx? if so go to your /var/log/xfree(xorg) log and give us the printout of that. Even in a console you should have links or links2 type of thing. a minimual text only browser.

[Mike Nieves]

Originally Posted by tsunam

do a lspci to show what the video card is...that will tell you what drivers it is, look to see in your xfree/xorg config to make sure everything is alright. make sure that you have kdm as a default runlevel item. etc etc. That'll keep you busy for a bit . Those are general things that could be wrong

Have you tried from the console to do a startx? if so go to your /var/log/xfree(xorg) log and give us the printout of that. Even in a console you should have links or links2 type of thing. a minimual text only browser.

I can't find the xfree!! Thats wierd. no xorg. !

[Swiper]

I had same type of problem as stated in previous post.

At the login prompt, log in as root
once, you are logged in
type in su ( as superuser )
then type in mcc
this will load up an inteface to configure your graphics card / monitor / resolution etc.....

have fun

[saikee]

To boot into GUI without the need to go through the command mode is run at run level 4 or 5. That information is in the file /etc/inittab.

Just alter the number in the line

id:3:........

to

id:4:..........

Some distros use 4 while others use 5 for X11 entry so a check is needed.

[Mike Nieves]

I tried mcc in console and tried to change the video card driver. It was set to vesa when I first looked at it. Or at least vesa was highlighted. After I hit do while vesa was highlighted, I got a Can't install xfree package error. I get that for all the other drivers as well.

As for the run level, it was already booting into runlevel 5 which should be showing the graphical interface as in my other 2 boxes.

[Mike Nieves]

I reinstalled Xfree86 and now when I startx I get a No screens found error.

[Swiper]

go back into mcc
your resolution is not correct
that is the error I received
set up proper video card
I set the resolution on monitor to ' generic ' and at a rate I knew my monitor can do
resolution should be set to 16 bpp


have fun

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by Swiper

I had same type of problem as stated in previous post.

At the login prompt, log in as root
once, you are logged in
type in su ( as superuser )
then type in mcc
this will load up an inteface to configure your graphics card / monitor / resolution etc.....

have fun

If you are logged in as root, why would you need to su. By the way, SU stands for Substitute User.

[saikee]

No screen found error is generally due to the available Linux drivers fail to match with your video/display. I got two distros doing that because my video card is too new for their kernels.

[Mike Nieves]

Originally Posted by saikee

No screen found error is generally due to the available Linux drivers fail to match with your video/display. I got two distros doing that because my video card is too new for their kernels.

Is there a way to get around that?

[downtime]

I don't know about M10, but back around 9 you could boot with the cd, choose upgrade, and install whatever you missed the first time around.

[Mike Nieves]

I've toyed with resolution for hours and no luck. I'm sure it's a driver or a configuration error. I want to copy my XFree86Config-4 here to show what I have, but i dont see a way to do that. I'm waiting to get on my other box where I have a bookmarked post with someone with EXACTLY the same error that I have.

[saikee]

My M10 also didn't work at first because the driver it chose for my video card. In fact I have 3 systems did that (Red Hat 9 and Libranet). I looked at those ones that work ( in my case the "nv" driver works but the "vesa" doesn't) and just changed the driver in "device section" of the XFree86Config-4. That is how I solved those 3 systems' display problem. At that time I have about 7 to 8 Linux systems to play with.

[Mike Nieves]

humm, I tried to change from vesa to nv, but nothing again. I was thinking that I need the Via driver, which is on the newer XFree86. M10 has a slightly older version. How can I update XFree86 and test that out?