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pyromaniac511

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i just installed mandrake (heard it was good) so i could run shake 4.0 and maya with fewer problems. i installed it once but dicided i wanted windows to be the default on boot so i started over. the first install i had a graphic interface, however on the second try i decided to see what the gnome interface did. now when i boot it asks for user name... no problem , password... got it then it says[ryan@localuser something something something]$

..... ok so its asking for a string value...... have no idea what to put. how can i get my graphical interface back.

thanks
 
Linux Graphical Interface

What's likely to be happening is it's not starting your video card driver or the graphical X server correctly. Try entering the command 'startx' without the quotes and post the output of that command here so you can be better assisted.
 
MandrakeLinux Release 10.1 (official) for i546
kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk on an i686/tty1
localhost login:
password:
last login: thu Aug 17 09:11:06 on tty1
[ryan@localhost ryan]$



...... some one sugeted i type ls
when i did it said

tmp/ `tmp was blue`
[ryan@localhost ryan]$
 
ok, i reinstalled it with a different video card setting and it worked, however now when i press home (which im guessing is like "my computer" ) or a browser (which they call konquerer) they apear on the bar at the bottom , flash a bit and dissapear. now i cant access my files cause i cant get past my desktop. .... any thoughts?
 
pyromaniac511 said:
ok, i reinstalled it with a different video card setting and it worked, however now when i press home (which im guessing is like "my computer" ) or a browser (which they call konquerer) they apear on the bar at the bottom , flash a bit and dissapear. now i cant access my files cause i cant get past my desktop. .... any thoughts?
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Yeah, it sounds like you are still having issues with 'x' (which is the desktop interface), which shouldn't happen if your install went well.

You can mudle around with it (hit alt+f1 to get to command line, try startx again or gnome-session and see if it runs better) but I would just reinstall at this point...it may be much easier.

But, after re-reading your post, you may want to explore the problem a little more. Could you clarify what happens when you click on the home folder? Also, please clarify so to be sure: do you know if you are running the gnome or kde desktop? To find your files, you may also try this (assuming you are using gnome): open a terminal (or sometimes is called a consol) then make yourself 'root' user (usually type 'su' then it will ask for the root 'password:' which is something that you should have created during the install. If you typed the correct password, you will now be at a new prompt $ sign). Then type in 'nautilus' without the quotes. This is the default file browser in gnome...from there you should be able to find all your files.

Then perhaps we'll go from there...
 
It looks like kde is the default desktop (install overview here). Konqueror should have been my first clue.

I would do what I said about becoming the root user in terminal, then type in 'konqueror' (instead of 'nautilus'). That is the file browser for kde.
 
pyromaniac511 said:
would i be better off reinstalling with gnome?
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Um, don't know that you would be better off, but, to me, gnome does seem to be a bit more intuitive.

But if 'x' is working good for you, then either kde or gnome should be manageable.

If it were me, I'd reinstall. Some of the more long-term Linux'ers could probe a lot more deaply using command line instructions, so you could go that route. I find some good linux questions answered here a lot of times. That is, of course, if you don't get the problem figured out via this forum.:)

But, in search of the fix, I repeat this comment:
Could you clarify what happens when you click on the home folder?
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