now what?

[W]

Sooo stuck....really simple question =)
I'm really new to linux so bear with me

How do you get KDE to load?
I've installed RH X, but KDE won't load
it goes to text base, and can't get it up

anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks

[Malakin]

startx?

Edit:
type "startx" after you log in.

If you want it to go straight to the gui in the future edit /etc/inittab and the first line that says
id:3:initdefault:
change it to
id:5:initdefault:

[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: idealego ]

[W]

yeah i know

but how???
GUI doesn't load up
it goes straight to text based login
and after login, i get more text base

[danrees]

You're not allowing people to help you because you don't say exactly what is going wrong.

Do you get error messages?
Do you get X starting but unusable?
Do you just want to login graphically instead of through the CLI?

[Cuthbert]

After you log into the machine and you get the text prompt, type startx. That should start the X server (gui). If that does not work, then you probably haven't configured it yet (did you configure that during the install?).

If that is the case, then type Xconfigurator or XF86config to setup your vid card and whatnot. Then try startx again.

[W]

Thanks all
Got it working now =)