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Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:39 am**

Hey bob,

i'm trying to install linux again, and i've tried lots of flavors, but this time i'm trying Mandrake 10.0 because I thought hey I should start with an easy realease and then work my way up to it.

so here I am Installing Mandrake and it's done I selected to install that xsystem or whatever to get a gui and I selected KDE as the gui or something like that.

anywho on the final boot I see

so I select linux and it comes to

now i've seen the last screen lots of times but I don't want that screen I want it to boot into a gui for me

I can log in no problem but again thats not what I want

Help a NEWB out

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:41 am**

Oh and by trying each of them I get to the same screen

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:09 am**

login as root, then type kdm.
let me know what that does.

Also, if you pm me a user account/password plus the IP . I can log in and check that everything is installed.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:47 am**

i'm running to do that now

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:54 am**

well this came up

also how can you log in the router would be blocking it wouldn't it????

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:11 pm**

good, it is working, press CTRL+ALT+F7

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:45 pm**

Then place your toe to your ear, hold your breath, wear nothing but a pair of soiled underwear, rub your bum against Gray, and peck at the keyboard with your nose. This will boot up Tux Racer, the best Linux game ever.

Well, maybe it's not quite that bad to get something going.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:00 pm**

hmmm maybe when i'm board one day

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:09 pm**

ok I press that and I get a blinking cursor a the top left and corner and it sits there

now when telling me what to do can you also tell me what I should be seeing

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:37 pm**

I used command startkde and startx

here it my findings

now this would tell me that my display settings are not set correct so I need to know how to go about and change those

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:27 am**

I try going through xf86config and to no prevail

can't startx or startkde

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:59 am**

What hardware, video-wise are you running.

also don't use xf86config, it sucks. Use xf86cfg -textmode

if you use xf86cfg without the switch it should start an Xserver.... but the mouse won't work lol

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:21 am**

well right now I went through reinstalling and this time i'm testing all video modes none of them seem to be working

it was a cirrus logic 5440

so i'm trying other video cards until I can get a good test on setup

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:35 am**

I put in a matrox video card and this time on install i have a gui

weird

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:29 am**

well I guess I did it i'm typing on the New Mandrake 10.0 install with KDE as the Gui

must have just been unsupported video card

my next questions how can I get out favorite games on this system

Example quake 3

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