Problem w/ Mandrake 10.1 on Inspiron-1000

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On Friday 15 April 2005 19:13, jwallacq@hotmail.com stood up and spoke
the following words to the masses...:

> I am trying to set up a Dell Inspiron-1000 as a dual boot system with
> Win-2K and Mandrake 10.1.
>
> I'm not exactly a Linux expert, but as near as I can tell, the
> Mandrake
> OS seems to be working OK in command-line mode. However I can't get
> the X-window GUI to work.
>
> During installation, the Installer seems to be recognizing the chipset
> correctly (SiS-650) and I selected "Dell 1048x768 Laptop" for the
> monitor. And I tried various combinations of resolution and color
> depth, but the Test display is never readable; and if I boot up in
> command line mode and type "startx", I get error messages.
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in Advance.
>
> john w.

Well, we would need to *see* those error messages. As for resolution,
you must set it for the physical resolution of your TFT display. They
typically don't really do well in other resolution settings.

Look for the XFree.0.log or Xorg.0.log file in */var/log* for more
information.

To reconfigure your graphical environment from within the character mode
environment, type *XFdrake* at the command prompt - mind the case!

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With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)