Problems with Mandrake 8.1

[Patrick Hustis]

It sounds like your system is booting into runlevel 3, which doesn't launch 
X.  During your install, did it walk you through the configuration of your 
video card, and video resolution settings?

Was it a graphical installer or was it text mode?

To me it sounds like either your video card wasn't detected correctly, or 
may not be supported.  What are your system specs?



At 10:36 PM 04/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>The install went without any problems at all. I did all the packages in
>about 20 minutes, no mistakes, restarts, or anything like I experienced with
>SuSE, just joy. So I rebooted like it said, and my computers boots up like
>normal. Then, I'm presented with a choice in slecting what I want to run
>before that, with Linux, safe settings, and a few other things, and I select
>Linux. It did a nice little thing on the purple screen starting this and
>that, etc, and then the screen went black and started flashing. After about
>a minute, the screen stopped flashing, and I could make out what it was.
>There was an awful penguin on a blue background with a huge LINUX in grey
>letters to the right. The penguin and the word LINUX were each made of
>sqaures of solid color about the same height as a capital letter.
>Essentially, it has the graphics of an old DOS game or something. Anyway,
>the screen sad some other stuff about my system, the date of Compile #1,
>etc, and it had a login thing. I logged in, and it gave me something like
>
>[matt@Matt matt]#
>
>which I'm pretty sure is a bash prompt. I doubt that's where it should take
>me. Can any of you help me? Thanks.
>
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