On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: > eric jackson wrote: > > You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the > > command line, did you try startx? > > No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login > tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, > the X server is launched. I can see the blue background image and the > splash screen but that's all. I forgot to say that there is no peculiar > message in /var/log/... either. > Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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