Re: Linux ....grrrr!

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Tony Butler (roaming@xxxxxxx):

> > This sounds very much like X *is* installed and is trying to
start
> > up and failing, so you're getting dropped back to a normal
tty.
> > 
> > As a quick workaround, you might try typing
> > 
> >   init 3
> 
> That worked thanks.  Seems I didn't remove X the 2nd time after
all...
> 
> Question now is how to get it working.....
> X supports the Millennium card according to the website, but I
wasn't
> asked what card I had when setting up mandrake & I have no idea
how to
> find a suitable setup proggie to run :-(
> Found Xinstall.sh but that complained some file (expand?) was
missing
> :-(

As I said, I'm not really a Mandrake person, so I'm guessing a bit
here.
You might try running Xconfigurator or xf86config though.  I don't
know
if they're on Mandrake installations, but it's worth a try.

James

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