I recently updated mandrake 10 community edition (finally the mirrors were working). However I have a bit of a snag. When I boot up it goes to the command line instead of the graphical login/desktop chooser. This isnt that big of a deal cause its not that hard to login and type kde. However, I would much prefer having my graphical chooser dealy back. In the control center I have the graphical option checked but it still insists on booting to the dos like environment. So, my question is, how can I get it to boot to the graphical chooser again? What would the config file be and where would I find it. Thus far I have been unable to locate it. Also, once found what lines would I have to change or add to make it revert to "normal". Thanks, in advance, for the help.

/etc/inittab

change it to runlevel 4

It should say something like:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

you wanna change the 3 to a 4. Atleast thats how it is in Slackware. I'm just assuming it's the same.

run level 5 in Mandy. Otherwise instructions as above

Another way if your not sure about using command line is to go into configure your computer > hardware>Xserver and configure your graphics card in here you will see an options box click same and configure to start x automaticly
Is a great system more than one way to do things

Regards Sharkee

Thanks for the help. Command line is cool and all (makes you feel like a computer master ) but, it is much nicer to boot into a chooser with images of beautiful women in the background . Thanx again.