My bootloader works fine, then I get to the screen ¨booting system¨ where you can press esc for verbose mode. Anyway, after that it throws me into the command console instead of booting into my graphical environment. Then I have to log in as root, disable my graphical interface (telinit 3) and load it again (telinit 5) and then it loads. If I just press alt F7 to switch to my graphical environment before disabling it nothing happens. I´ve set the option in my boot options menu to boot into my graphical environment but it still does this. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this?

Take a look at /etc/inittab and see if there's a line that reads "id:3:initdefault:"

If so, change the "3" to a "5" and you should enter into your graphical environment.

It would be odd if it read "id:3:initdefault:", though, because Mandriva comes set up to go into runlevel 5 by default (because most new users want the graphical environment).

If it already reads "5" then something else is amiss....

Yeah I already checked it out, my settings in /etc/inittab says id:5:initdefault: that's what I can't figure out. Have any ideas?

I have just started having that problem myself. I will post a solution if I get one.

I had to do almost the same thing for a short time.
I need the Nvidia driver for my video card. When first installed there was some problem with the logon screen. When I did like you (init 3 as root) then log in as a normal user and startx I got the GUI but it would freeze after a short time. There was also a message about some failure with loading the Nvidia driver.
I am not sure what fixed it as I poked around at a couple things. I reloaded the Nvidia kernel, reran my X configuration, and also had to correctly set the color higher to get rid of the weird colors that appeared when I started firefox. That's what I recall.
Now I see the Nvidia splash on boot, don't see an error with loading the module, no weird colors, and generally great resolution.

Hi

This happened on my box also, it is now stable, same as 2damncommon already says; i too cannot
exactly point out what does the trick, because i always start to alter to much at once.
But to point to some solutions;

i had to append acpi=off in my lilo.conf (rerun lilo afterwards as root)
(i am running an AMD box noapic and nolapic were already in the lilo.conf)

in mandrake 10.1 i had to depmod -a after installing nvidia module
so i did the same in mandriva 2005, just to be sure.

i always use gdm as my inlogmanager, because i had issues with kdm in the past,
besides that i like the themes and the style it uses.

part of my xorg.conf;

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "NoLogo" "on"
Option "HWCursor" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

try several options as you like

and maybe post tha one solution that does the trick for you, so all can
benefit

enjoy

don't know if ifs a solution but one problem I found in testing 10.2 was it was crashing out of trying to find my xserver.

then I found multiple entries of nvidia in my
/etc/modprobe.preload file

deleted the duplicates and now sweet.

now I have to figure out my kdm issue.......
found it here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=kdm
reddaz you guru you