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Gireesh Bhat wrote:
On 12/15/06, *Joep van Ham* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Good morning,
This message was first shipped to your commercial department,
where I
learned to subscribe as a newbee.
The wbsite, mentioned to read the FAQ, is not available or under
construction.
This is my message:
I tried very hard and several times to correctly install Mandriva
2007
Powerpack.(bought last week). I am unable to start Mandriva in
graphical
mode, always the xterm console comes up. I checked the options of
the
graphical server and the graphical interface at start-up is
activated. This
morning I re-installed Mandriva and selected both KDE and Gnome. The
result
is the same: xterm console.
You need to know that I quit Suse for just one reason: lack of
assistence.
I sincerely expect Mandriva to come up with a solution.
Regards,
Joep van Ham, newbee with Mandriva.
P.S. the FREE download, received with Linux magazine # 44 does
start up
correctly in Konquerer. This means that my hardware is sufficient to
presernt Mandriva in graphical mode. Updating FREE by Powerpack
does not
work either, for
in FREE \\\'root\\\'is disabled.
Thanks in advance.
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Joep van Ham & Tiny Vermulst
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At the console, type in your userid hit enter and then enter your
password and hit enter.
Now type in su hit enter and enter the root password. Now type
XFdrake and hit enter. You should now be able to configure your
monitor and graphical card.
And you should know, no one here is an employee of Mandriva, paid
to offer support, we do it as a community effort, putting/paying back
some of the help others have given to us. if there is anyone paid to
be here, please speak up and correct me.
I knew that. When I bought Powerpack 2007 I expected the correct
functioning, the more while the FREE version functioned immediatly and
correctly.
when you say "in FREE \\\'root\\\'is disabled" I am not sure what
you mean. how are you trying to be root? what commands are you giving?
root should (must) always work, but some security settings can effect
how root must be accessed, and what it can do.
I found that in my FREE version the root application was prohibited. so
what. I have Powerpack running.
also, "xterm" and a bash prompt are NOT the same thing, while in x
you start a term program called xterm, you do get a logged in users
bash shell prompt (if the bash shell is selected for that user) in the
non-Xwindows (run level 3, No Xwindows running) that is just the login
prompt, and the shell will be decided by who logs in. are you saying
that when the text screen starts up, no one is asked to login? (then
auto login of some user was setup during the install, not what I think
most of us would recommend, but no big deal to change or even leave
alone)
I am very sorry and you are right: it is the bash console that is
presented at start up.
as far as configuring your video card correctly, the other
instruction about XFdrake is/are correct., BTW what video card do you
have?
my card is Riva TNT2 with the monitor: ACER FP581.
If you are going to leave this distribution due to "lack of
assistance", don't let the door hit you in the ass, if you are here to
try and learn something new, or more about GNU Linux and the Mandrivia
distribution in particular, then welcome and I hope you find the
assistance here more to your style and needs.
As you may know by now, the KDE console is presented at start up, so I
can start configuring and working with Mandriva.
Regards,
Joep van Ham
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