On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, melchior wrote: > when i log in with either driver i can move the cursor around the > console. but startx doesn't load. > > using fbdev as the driver. as su, i type startx. i get a red screen and > eventually a warning about using the gui as root. after a while i can > pull up the menubar at the bottom, try to load anything and it just > sits in the bar with the hour glass, not doing anything. > startx as a regular user i get a blue screen and only a blue screen. > nothing happens. there's no menu bar, nothing. eventually i push > control alt delete to get out of it. >
Again, you're confusing X and the desktop environment. X alone isn't much, a graphical display and possibly a mouse cursor. If you have that, then XFree is working. I don't understand what you mean by "startx doesn't load". Either X runs, or you drop back to the console. For the other, I need more information. Look at ps output from a console, look at .xsession-errors in the X user's home directory. It sounds like some process is hanging, and it might well be drakfw, like I mentioned in the last message. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
