I know nothing about linux except for a few simple commands- but i'm trying it out. I installed madrake 9.2 on a virgin pc and started it up- it boots into the command line- i log in as either root or "john"- the only users on the pc. I want to start the gui so i type in "xstart" - it displays something like this:
using authority .xauthority
writing (jibberish)
.......
(a couple more lines of stuff i dont understand- but this is before the error so it is meaningless)

execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 13)
giving up

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2) unable to connect to x server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error

I don't know what to do- to log into the gui (gnome or kde) i know i installed them though. how do I fix this. Also- I also tried to start up by changing /etc/inittab- i was logged in as root and it said i didn't have permissions- i'm root- how do i fix this. Thanks for the help

Try instead of 'xstart'... startx


If it still gives an error, you most likely didn't configure X properly during installation, or Mandrake detected the wrong video card, settings, etc.

yo can type startgnome, or startkde too, if you use one of these.

or "gdm" widout quotes