Thanks. I've got things running smoothly at 800x600, which'll be good
enough for now. I'll fiddle more later to see if I can do better. Now,
on to network configuration. <sigh> Hope this works :-)
-j-
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Jason Wojciechowski
Hampshire College
AIM: DoctaWojo
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alt e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I'm a born lever-puller."
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Mercy Ships-Pacific Webmaster wrote:
> You Should be able (from root) to run the Xconfigurator (type
> Xconfigurator) and fix up your diplay problems...set your resoloutioin back
> to 640 X 480 and see if X runs then.... If you get a GUI then your prob is
> your display settings..work through that. startx starts Xserver.
>
> --
> Aaron -- newbie2
>
>
> > well i am a newbie to
> > but i think you can type:
> > startx when you are loged as root
>
> >> I just installed Mandrake 7.0, and now I'm having a bit of trouble. I
> >> can't seem to get into the GUI (KDE? Is that what it's called? I really
> >> AM a newbie). When I boot up, I get taken to the command line interface.
> >> Things work as they should from there (well... the things I expect to work
> >> do), but I'd sure like to be able to get to the GUI.
> >>
> >> A littke but of background to the problem. I was having some display
> >> issues, as I had given wrong information during the install process, so I
> >> got those fixed to where things look as they should. I even got into the
> >> GUI. However, since it was at 640x480 resolution, I went back to the
> >> command line to try to up that. However, when I got through doing what I
> >> thought should fix that, I couldn't get back to the GUI. I've gone
> >> through Linuxconf, trying to figure out what might be wrong, but I haven't
> >> found anything that looks like it might be causing the problem.
> >>
> >> I think that's everything. Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> -j-
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Jason Wojciechowski
> >> Hampshire College
> >> AIM: DoctaWojo
> >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Alt e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> "I'm a born lever-puller."
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
