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Please bear with me, I am not a IT Professional. I have just purchased =
Mandrake 8.0 and have installed on a new clean drive. I am running a AMD =
processor and had 256meg of RAM. The installation went smoothly with no =
problems using the expert mode. The problems began when i rebooted the =
first time. X-windows started but I am not sure that it started =
correctly. The screen flashed a few times, came up with a grey dotted =
screen, then a blue screen, with an arrow pointer. Then i keep getting =
error messages susch as: application "keyboard-properties" (process =
1899) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation Fault)
What is a segmentation fault? Each time I startx the results are =
different. This last time I had no error messages, when Gnome started. =
When starting KDE desktop I get nothing but error messages saying that =
certain parts of the application have crashed and have sent out a
signal 11. I have been reading and reading all the books and internet =
sites on Linux--so much information i don't know where to start to put =
it all together. =20
I know that i installed the packages that i wanted during the =
install, such as game station and staroffice52, but how do I go about =
getting them to run--I can't even find them. what am i doing wrong. =
probly something simple. but I don't know where to start. please help =
if possible so I don't have to make Linux shelfware and put in Windows. =
Does anyone know where the Gnome application crash page can be found? I =
would like to see how a properly configured Linux machine works. =
frustrated but not giving up!!
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