Lou67
09-16-2002, 05:05 AM
I bought Mandrake 8.1 several months ago, but I've had problems getting the system running.
The first problem I had was that KDE wouldn't automatically start; the black screen with the penguin would just flicker on and off as it attempted to start the GUI. After several reinstalls, I finally got a wizard that said that XWindows wasn't starting because of incorrect settings, and it walked me through a procedure to correct those settings. After that, KDE started up without any problems.
A few months later, I finally got around to installing a NIC, but I wasn't able to establish an Internet connection. I ran HardDrake, and it detected my NIC properly. But I must have entered one of the settings incorrectly, because I couldn't connect. I called my ISP, but they declined to offer any support once they heard it was a Linux system. I tried to infer the correct settings by looking at the settings in my Windows 98 machine, but I still couldn't connect.
In a last ditch effort to solve the Internet connection problem, I reinstalled Mandrake. Now I'm back to that XWindows failure, and I don't know how to get that wizard running (it came up on its own last time).
If you can help me to get to that wizard or in some other way adjust my settings so I can get into KDE, I'd appreciate it. Any tips on the Internet connection would be helpful too.
P. S. I hope I wasn't unclear. I'm new to Linux and don't know the lingo.
The first problem I had was that KDE wouldn't automatically start; the black screen with the penguin would just flicker on and off as it attempted to start the GUI. After several reinstalls, I finally got a wizard that said that XWindows wasn't starting because of incorrect settings, and it walked me through a procedure to correct those settings. After that, KDE started up without any problems.
A few months later, I finally got around to installing a NIC, but I wasn't able to establish an Internet connection. I ran HardDrake, and it detected my NIC properly. But I must have entered one of the settings incorrectly, because I couldn't connect. I called my ISP, but they declined to offer any support once they heard it was a Linux system. I tried to infer the correct settings by looking at the settings in my Windows 98 machine, but I still couldn't connect.
In a last ditch effort to solve the Internet connection problem, I reinstalled Mandrake. Now I'm back to that XWindows failure, and I don't know how to get that wizard running (it came up on its own last time).
If you can help me to get to that wizard or in some other way adjust my settings so I can get into KDE, I'd appreciate it. Any tips on the Internet connection would be helpful too.
P. S. I hope I wasn't unclear. I'm new to Linux and don't know the lingo.