hi everybody from Paris, France,

this is my first post as I am new to slackware. I discovered Linux in last june with mandriva.

I just installed slackware 11.0 on a toshiba laptop.

These were my main choices for installation :

- I chose all packages,
- I chose the kernel for ide drive with acpi,
- I chose a 1024*768 display (I have a GEforce 4 Nvidia card)
- I did not pass any parameter into lilo 's configuration
- I finally chose KDE for the GUI interface

On reboot, I arrive on the console in root with no GUI

How can I start KDE ? I tried "kde", "/sbin/kde", "./kde" without success

Sorry if my question looks dum ..

thanks

donald

I don't know how Slackware configures things during it's installation, but try startx.

Hi,

First, Welcome to Slackware, now check my sig for some good online reference.

You should create a user with the command 'adduser'. Then login using that account. You can always 'su' to become root. Less chance of creating problems when you are a 'user' than with the root account. With 'su' use, you can generally recover from errors or tweak to allow proper use.

For the 'X' just issue the command 'startx' from the console. You should 'man startx' to get the goodies.

This 'man' is your friend. Really, to learn the system use the 'man <command>' when in doubt. Google and LQ searches will help also.

I have solved my problem.

I added a user and was able to start kde with startx.

Then I modified the run level to 4 in /etc/inittab to start the gui

Thanks guys !

donald

thanks for the references. I bookmarked them

donald