Thanks for the reply David,
I may well try that. At the moment I've reinstalled all that I can see
of X, also drakxtools and drakxtools-newt, and all of KDE. I used rpm
-ivh <name> --force.
I still can't get XFdrake to work, which is weird because it did
before. The freeze appears to take place at the card detection
stage. Adding the -expert and -noauto options makes no difference. At
the moment I am running fvwm from my own .xinitrc file. The whole
thing was put together using xf86config and a bit of hand-editing of
XF86Config. I can't get things to telinit 5 properly and KDE doesn't
work. I am confused as to how I have managed to fsck things up this
way...
The nice thing about Linux is that I'm fairly sure that it's me
that's messed up somewhere, I've just got to find out how!
Tom
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:00:40PM -0600, David Joham wrote:
> What about downloading XConfigurator for RedHat and trying that?
> I'm coming in late to this conversation so apologies if this has already
> been suggested.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Strickland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:34 AM
> To: expert-mandrake
> Subject: Re: [expert] XFdrake freezes -- PLEASE help!
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:00:42PM +0000, Tom Strickland wrote:
> > I recently transferred my hard drives to a friend's machine to help
> > him sort a problem out. I had to reconfigure X to get things
> > moving. When I came home and tried to reconfigure X, I found that
> > XFdrake completely freezes. What gives? I've done it enough times
> > before. This is a total freeze - I can't change terminals or the caps
> > lock light and I have to hard-reset.
> > What am I doing wrong?
> I just can't work this out. The freeze is total - I can't even break out
> using Alt-SysReq. I've completely reinstalled X from rpms and I'm
> still stumped. BTW - what happened to Xconfigurator? It would be nice
> if I still had it as a 2nd option, but now it links to XFdrake.
