Can't Leave Command-Line

[Spence]

I was running KDE on Mandrake 8.0 and it crashed, so I hit Alt+Ctrl+Esc and clicked on the desktop, which brought me to the command-line interface. Then I restarted by doing Alt+Ctrl+Delete. When it returned to Linux, it's back in command-line mode, and I tried Alt+F7, but it just comes up with a black screen with the blinking underscore text cursor. I've also tried using failsafe (I don't know if I used it correctly, however) , and I tried a boot disk, but they both bring me back to command-line. How do I get back into X Windows and how do I make it default?

[Ardith]

To start X from the command line, use "startx"

To set it to default, edit /etc/inittab. Change the 'default runlevel' line to:

id:5:initdefault:

(using Debian here; someone correct me if I'm wrong)

Ardith