I went to the NVIDIA for linux discussions to get help on this (makes sense right?) and they're not even answering my posts. I've gotten great results here so I'm trying again

I just recently installed the newest NVIDIA drivers and followed all the instructions. Now when starting up I come to a text only login screen. I can type in my login or root and login but I'm in a console like text screen and I don't have my desktop.

If I restart my computer, one of the options on my grub loading is failsafe, when I choose that I have the option of grapic and network startup or text and network startup. If I choose the graphic and network option I can get back to my desktop just fine. It's just a pain. When I do it that way I get the NVidia splash screen and the driver appears (as far as I can tell) to be working fine. I just want it to start into the X server automatically like it used to

Now, when I installed the driver I restarted into the text only mode to do it (I think that may be the problem). I've change my XFree86-4 file. I've noticed a similar problem like this on the NVidia FAQ but it says that for that issue you will get an error in the XFree86.0.log file which I'm not getting. Plus it says that driver doesn't work properly, which mine seems to be.

I believe it mentions it already but I'm using Mandrake 9.1. specs are:

Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
Asus P4T motherboard
Geforce 4 Ti 4200

Hi kaega2

Just go to Mandrake Control Center and choose "Boot" then "Boot Config" and check the box "Launch the graphical environmnet when your system starts" or something similar and that's all.

You can start the X mode typing startx in the text console.

Bye.

Thanks Madrinator. You're advice didn't solve the problem but it's helping me get there. The option to start it automatically was already checked. So I unchecked it and then tried starting X manually. I'm now getting the error as described on the NVidia FAQ, so I can follow their troublshooting to fix the issue. Thank you again