[TriLUG] X will not start on new Mandriva 2007 installation

Douglas Ward dward at nccumc.org
Sat Dec 23 21:54:13 EST 2006


I started out with Mandriva when I first learned linux.  After switching for
about six months to kubuntu I wanted to give this new version another shot.
I'm disappointed that Firefox 2.0 isn't included though...

On 12/23/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:23, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > drakx11 resolved the issue.  I didn't realize that mandriva did not set
> up
> > the display properly.  Thanks for the tip!
>
> You're welcome!
>
> I've been Mandraking and Mandriving since 2000. Mand* is frustrating -- in
> this case during install they forget to ask you to set up X (I've had that
> happen several times), they have missing symlinks, and other minor
> irritations, but to me, Mand* is an outstanding desktop distro that
> enables
> me to easily run my business. So it's worth the minor irritations :-)
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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