I just installed Mandriva 2005 LE from a DVD, but had some problems. It didn't like my selection of video driver. At the time I didn't know what my video driver was, so I guessed and it didn't like any of my guesses. Finally, I backed up and managed to get around this question (not sure how) and finished the installation.

When I rebooted I got a text display (no GUI). I entered my name and password and got a command prompt. I entered startx and got an error message. Then I entered drakconf and selected "Display" from the options list.

This gave me the message, "Your Xorg configuration file is broken, we will ignore it". Then I was given a list of video drivers to choose from. My video card is a g-force 4mx, mx420, by nVIDIA, so I selected the choice closest to it which was "GeForce 4(generic). "

I got a message that said, "Please insert the medium named 'Installation DVD' on drive [/dev/hdc]". Then one of the drives opened up, but it was the CD-RW drive, not the DVD drive. It won't read the DVD and I can't get it to read the DVD drive.

I'm now stuck.


What to do now?

Help would be appreciated.

temporarily... run drakconf again and go down to the xorg section, choose 'nv', this will give you a GUI so that you can resolve the issue.

Regards
Richard

Richard,

I ran drakconf again, but there was no "xorg" secton on it

Suggestions?

Thanks

edit the xorg.conf file and simply put 'nv' in.

if not choose a vesa card from drakconf...

Richard,

My mistake! The "xorg" section was within the "Display" section. The first time, I only looked at listings other than "Display".

I tried both "nv" and "vesa" but got the same result. I got a message that said, "Please insert the medium named 'Installation DVD' on drive [/dev/hdc]". Then one of the drives opened up, but it was the CD-RW drive, not the DVD drive. So I'm back to where I started from.

Any suggestions on how to get past this point?

Thanks!

just realised, you do have the xserver installed, right?

Richard,

I probably didn't have "xserver" installed. I say probably because I'm a newbie and am still uncomfortable with the file system. Anyway, I ran "find xserver" in both the current directory and the root directory but found nothing.

I booted to the Installation DVD and chose to Upgrade my system. This ran briefly and now I have a GUI (from which I'm preparing this message!) This is real progress for me.

Thanks for putting me on the right path

(who has learned something!)

well done and Good luck.

Regards
Richard