Thanks Cory, You know, I'm not sure which, tho I think 7.2 from an ISO image burned to cd (System and CD is at home, I'm at the office). I tried X [tab][tab] with no results but that may have been when I was in single mode...I tried so many things in a short time this AM. I will try again tonight once I get home. Dave On Thu, 07 December 2000, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > Dave, > > Your config files are in /etc/X11, the main config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. > Beware though, that some X distributions prior to 4.0.1 also puts config files in >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11. You may have a symlink from one XF86Config file to the other. >Check it out with ls -l, or ls -F. With -F symlinks will have a @ appended to the >end of the filename. > > With Mandrake, you should have a program called Xconfigurator. Try typing >X<tab><tab> to see what programs are available. Be sure to use a capital X. You can >also do a lowercase x, but you'll get more programs. xf86config might be on your >system as well, but this program is a little more difficult to use. > > Also look in /var/log/ Look for files such as XFree86.0.log, or xdm.log. These >might have some error messages that you aren't seeing. > > If you still have trouble, try posting your log files and hardware specs, and >XF86Config. > > One other thing, you say Mandrake 7. Which one. 7.1 and prior uses XFree86 3.3.6, >while 7.2 uses Xfree86 4.0.1. Big difference between the two. > > Cory > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:45:56AM -0800, Dave Wyatt wrote: > > Help! My Mandrake 7 system has suddenly decided to do the Windows > > thing and crash when going into graphical mode. I get a blank screen > > and no response to keyboard or mouse. Couldn't bring up a terminal. > > Not even ctrl>alt>del would help. I didn't wait too long before I hit > > the reset button so I do not know if it would have snapped out of it > > on its own. I figured a dead keyboard was not a good sign. > > > > I was able to start the system in single mode and I changed the boot > > default from graphical to text console and it boots fine and all seems > > well as long as I don't do startx. If I do, I get the same results as > > above. > > > > I have noticed during boot-up there is a 3 minute plus wait when > > "Starting system logger:" is displayed. This was almost instant > > before I started having trouble. I suspect this is a sign of trouble. > > > > The last time I accessed the functional system I changed the network > > config to set my firewall machine as the gateway. This seems to still > > be working as it should, as I can ping locally and on the internet > > from this machine. As I recall, the only other change I made was to > > the Netscape default font. Would changing the font in Netscape cause > > this problem? > > > > I will not be able to make it tonight so I can't let you experts look > > at it. Being the Novice I am, I do not know what to do from here. I > > can't seem to fine the console program to set up X, and I don't know > > where the config files are located. > > > > Any hints or help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Dave Wyatt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > 1stUp.com - Free the Web > > Get your free Internet access at http://www.1stUp.com
