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
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