Congratulations on such a fine error! ;-)
The only time I ever got things respawning too fast was on init, and it
usually was a module thing.
BTW, I'm on Mandrake 8.0; Their X setup stuff is poor IMHO. They took Red
Hat's xconfigurator, but there's a catch 22 in that - it's first guess needs
to work or you're screwed. XF86setup was also around, but I ended up with the
text version on my awkward machines, and then using vi to tweak modelines.
Try <startx >file 2>&1>
then <less file>
and you'll see what's going on. I would set up for console operation, (it
may work to run to a console and type <init 3> as root) and you can run
harddrake or linuxconf from there. They also give a file called xtart, which
allows you to choose window managers (funny to be reccomending this; check
out the intro in that script, and my signature). KDE starts off the sound and
everything, so you'd never know what's going on. I gave up on KDE - they
didn't know when to stop writing code :-(.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Experience is like a comb,
that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:32, you wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the
> first time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to
> kde and in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its
> stosp and says::
> init id "x" respawning too fast, disable for 5 min
>
> That seems to be a video card problem but the /etc/X11/XF86Config looks ok
> to me.
>
> What am I missing or what do i look for otherwise its a re-install with no
> guarantees it will work.
>
> card is linux compatible Nvidia gforce with video out, M200 I think from
> memory.
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