I had this problem with Mandrake 7.2. I solved it by installing Ximian
GNOME. I don't have the problem with 8.0, though.
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:00, Solver wrote:
> I wonder why this always happens to me, after several days of using
> Linux. When I type startx in the command prompt, the violet screen
> comes up, but the GNOME won't appear - or it takes it some 5 minutes
> to appear, in meantime the PC doesn't even think. Why this happens?
> The only solution I've found is reinstalling Linux, but there must
> be something else. At least, how do I reinstall only X? Solver
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