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Ok... now I am back into WinXP......
Uh after the system starts, and tries to go into the login manager, the screen blinks a few times, then it goes into a command line.
Before that, when I tried to log in to the account I have been using, the screen blinked and brought be back to the log in screen.
How do I get to my graphical desktop using the command line, and do I have to be logged in as root?
AHHHHHH!!!!
Ok, I log in and I type startx.
Then I get an error about a temp file (it goes away to fast to read), then about 3 screens of text about problems, basically a server crash? It says something about a server crash and blah....
But, I still can't enter the desktop!
well there could be an easier way around it, and you can wait and see if someone else posts an easier solution, but all i can suggest, is that you specify your font paths manually in your xf86config-4 file located at /etc/X11...that is if they exist in the first place.
well in the xf86config-4 file you will notice at the top a part called:
Section "Files"
you can make entries like so:
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
like so...i only typed a couple, cause i don't feel like putting them all...if you navigate to the folder /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, you will see the different directories for the fonts..
so up above you see i demonstrated the local folder and the misc folder...you can do so for the rest of them that you see in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts folder...so you may have like 10 or so entries in your file....
so give it a try and see what happens...
and just cause i think you may ask the question about how you are going to open this xf86config-4 file, i'll just tell you to learn more about text editors....
a basic example of how you would open it is as easy as:
emacs /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
or....
vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
emacs and vi are both text editors, the reason why i say read up on text editors, is just for you will know how to save and write to the file, etc, etc....
good luck!
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