X, mdk, laptop (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Laptop for Installfest)

[David Anselmi]

Kurt Sturm wrote:
> 
> Good news.... I installed mandrake on the laptop and the drives do
> indeed hot swap. Now for the BAD news, I cannot get X to come up in
> graphical mode. Ugg!! Just turned my laptop into a paper weight. I am
> looking around linux-laptop.net to see if there is a solution to this.

Well, you can fix X the Unix way or the Windows way.  The Windows way is
to install a different distro (repeat as necessary until it works).

The Unix way is to figure out what's wrong and fix it--X almost
certainly supports your laptop.

If you want help, post details of your problem.  I assume that by can't
get X into graphical mode you're seeing error messages from it.  So log
in from a virtual console (press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 to get a login
prompt).  Type 'startx 2>x.err' and post the file containing error
messages.

Or if I'm way off base, tell me how.

Dave