Hi,

Help ! I had installed and been running Mandrake 10.1 quite happily over the past month. Well I'm not sure what I've done, but this morning when I boot into linux, everything seems to load ok except that instead of getting to my graphical desktop I just get to a text login screen and when I login all I have is text and no graphics. What have I done !!

Could someone please advise me on how I can restore it so that I boot up into the linux enviroment without having to re-install it all. Worst still is that I had managed to get a ADSL connection through my BT Voyager 100 modem, which I have to say was a complete headache, so I would hate to have to go through that again !!

By the way, I was using a KDE enviroment if that helps advise me.

Hope you can help

Simon

i think you are now booting into the text mode at startup.
do one thing , at text mode, you log in using your username and password
and then get into the mandrake control center to change your login sessions settings into automatic graphical mode booting.
i think this will help you out, or if it a hardware detection error, at text mode, you type drakconf and check whether your graphic card has been configured along with your monitor as this would affect your graphical mode entering. ok, then this should do it........

I am having a similar problem.
First, a temp solution to your problem: boot up in failsafe mode, and login as root. Then "init 5", and it should go through the X-Server loading process.
I'm on MDK 10.0 using Nvidia drivers, and my machine recently started booting into runlevel 3 (despite its boot messages saying that it's loading 5). One thing I noticed is that it doesnt display the Nvidia splash, and when I shut down, I notice a message about "spash.sh" producing a seg fault. Anyone heard of this, and know the cause?

~Dave