Stuck in non graphical mode at bootup

[iamhives]

I have installed mandrake 7.2 seemingly successfully. (i'm a newbie). Have been trying to set nvidia graphics card up (no success so far)

However, now when I boot linux (I use Grub boo manager). I go to non graphical login. How to I get back inot the graphical environment ? and make it boot there again ?

i suspect i changed the option to boot to x when I last was in - would this be it

Thanks

[stingray72]

Are you talking about a GUI boot loader or actaully starting X? I'm going to assume you want to start X: If that's the case, from the console just type

startx

If you want it to default to a graphical login you have to change your /etc/inittab file. There a line in there dealing with Runlevel. It's got to be either 3 or 5 I can't remember. I also think there's comments in the file to help explain. I changed mine to avoid the Graphical Login.

Hope this helps some

stingray72

[stingray72]

The Runlevel line has this format

id:runlevels:action :process

Check this site out...

Info (http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/x1766.html)

[kenta]

Try this link i helped me http://www.quake3world.com/forums/
Thoose guys know Nvidia probs.

Cool

[michboy]

In /etc/inittab you will see a line, the first one that isn't a comment, that will look like this:

id:3:initdefault:

Change the 3 to 5 and from now on your computer will boot to X

Originally posted by iamhives:
I have installed mandrake 7.2 seemingly successfully. (i'm a newbie). Have been trying to set nvidia graphics card up (no success so far)


However, now when I boot linux (I use Grub boo manager). I go to non graphical login. How to I get back inot the graphical environment ? and make it boot there again ?


i suspect i changed the option to boot to x when I last was in - would this be it


Thanks

[bdg1983]

There's also a NHF on the subject of 'Booting Into GUI' here http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/x-windows/guiboot.html

The NHF's here are good reading especially for the newbies.