What it sounds like to me, is that you're booting and then X is loading
failsafe. Now when I load failsafe, it shows up in the lower right hand
corner, but it may be something I've set up.
I doubt it has anything to do with what version of X you're running.
Then again... it could be loading TWM. (Which in my opinion is a waste
of diskspace if you ask me!) I recompiled XFree86 4.1.0 over the
weekend and every time I tried to load X, it would give me TWM.
Either way, when you're in whatever windows manager, perform a
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. It will kill the X windows session and give you a
prompt. At the prompt type:
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat .xinitrc
exec enlightenment
If it comes back saying "No file or directory" then create one.
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ vim .xinitrc
And follow the example above. I use enlightenment, so that's why it
says enlightenment. I suggest just using that to test when you start.
After you've done that type xinit, or startx, they'll both give you the
same thing.
Does the new windows manager load? If it does, just edit the .xinitrc
to load the windows manager you want.
Give that a try and let us know.
tdh
| Second issue,
|
| I've been installing LM 8.0 on A friends Lcd-pc from Mitac , sold as A
| Fujitsu. (No dual boot, plain Linux!! Yess!! The owner is A computer newbie
| in any way.)
| During X configuration, I only get A desktop that is much smaller than the
| lcd screen is, and it is placed in the left upper corner.
| I do have the feeling that I have to use XFree86 3.3.6 instead of 4.0.3 to
| get this fixed, but oddly enough I did not get A choice between the two
| versions during expert install. I installed LM 8.0 A couple of times on my
| own computer, and I had always the choice between the two XFree86 versions.
| I tried various settings of resolutions, colour depths and monitors.
| Than I thought that I should finsh the install with the small desktop and try
| to change the XFree86 version thru Mandrake control center, but there I
| didn't had the choice either!
| Mandrake forced me to use version 4.0.3
| After A couple of installation Attempts still no result.
| What can I do about it?
| Thanks,
|
| Gerard
|
| Mitac LCD PC 1 (ML 5601)
| 13 " LCD screen 800x600 (DSTN I believe.)
| Pentium 233 intel 430 TX chipset
| 128 meg ram
| 4 gig harddisk
| Onboard video: Chips & technologies ct 655555
| Onboard sound: Crystal something , it works after sndconfig. not sounddrake
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