Localhost Login Problem.
Hello, My name is Mark. Ijust finished installing Mandrake 9. 2. Im having 1 problem so far. After installing then rebooting , It goes through the directory OK section then stops at a line that says LOCALHOST LOGIN: what do I put their.
Hello, My name is Mark. Ijust finished installing Mandrake 9.2. Im having 1 problem so far . After installing then rebooting , It goes through the directory OK section then stops at a line that says LOCALHOST LOGIN: what do I put their .I tried my USERNAME mark , then it asked for a password . I tried my root password then I tried the user name password I didn't work . Whats going on .What Iam I missing here. Thanks Mark. ;(
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Sorry I wasn't able to catch you before the install. You probably have a / partition and a swap partition which is fine. I would have advised also creating a seperate partition for /home. It's ok, and in fact, preferable to have seperate partitions in Linux.
As for the sound, In your menu, look for "aumix", or pull up a terminal and type aumix and press enter. Make sure the volumn control there is turned up.
Do you have a NIC in your computer? If you do (and of course have high speed internet), the card should almost certainly work. Go into the Mandrake control center, and go to internet configuration wizard to get it working. I've not used Mandrake for several months now, but if you choose mostly the default settings here along the way, you should be able to get it working.
Also in the Mandrake control center, you will see a screen icon labled "resolution". You can change resolutions here.
Those four boxes at the bottom are just workspaces. If you clutter up your screen or have work going on in one that you don't want to close out, just click on 2 and you'll get a clean screen to clutter up again. I never use it.
Take your time, and explore. There's nothing you can do that another re-install won't fix.
Good luck.
As for the sound, In your menu, look for "aumix", or pull up a terminal and type aumix and press enter. Make sure the volumn control there is turned up.
Do you have a NIC in your computer? If you do (and of course have high speed internet), the card should almost certainly work. Go into the Mandrake control center, and go to internet configuration wizard to get it working. I've not used Mandrake for several months now, but if you choose mostly the default settings here along the way, you should be able to get it working.
Also in the Mandrake control center, you will see a screen icon labled "resolution". You can change resolutions here.
Those four boxes at the bottom are just workspaces. If you clutter up your screen or have work going on in one that you don't want to close out, just click on 2 and you'll get a clean screen to clutter up again. I never use it.
Take your time, and explore. There's nothing you can do that another re-install won't fix.
Good luck.
Hello , When you say look in the Menu do you mean clicking on the K BUTTON. If you do there is no AUMIX . For the resolution you said check the Mandrake Control Centre is that the screen that comes up after a restart and there is a icon that says My Computer . I clicked on it and it gave me an error.Something like no files loaded.
As with Windows there is a "start" menu at the bottom of the screen. If you're seeing a "K" then you are using KDE as your desktop environment. If they are installed, you may want to experiment with Gnome and IceWM which are two other DE choices at the login screen. Yes, the "K" is where you would start the process of looking something up in your menu. Did you go to the command line and type "aumix" and enter? If nothing came up, maybe it is not part of Mdk 9.2 as it was with 9.0. In that case, look for a program that controls sound and volume either in the menu, or in the KDE control center. There should be something there that will let you configure sound.
execve failed for /etc/x11/X
startx
giving up
xinit:no such file or directory (errno 2):unable to connect to x server
xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error.
[wmorris@localhost wmorris]$ startx
using authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
writing authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
usine authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
writing authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
execve failed failed for /ect/X11/X (errno 2)
giving up.
xinit:no such file or directory (errno 2):unable to connect to x server
xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error.
[wmorris@localhost wmorris]$
I am using mircosoft virtual pc to run mandrake mabe thats the problem cause i dont know linux at all i am trying to lern it...
startx
giving up
xinit:no such file or directory (errno 2):unable to connect to x server
xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error.
[wmorris@localhost wmorris]$ startx
using authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
writing authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
usine authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
writing authority file/home/wmorris/.xauthority
execve failed failed for /ect/X11/X (errno 2)
giving up.
xinit:no such file or directory (errno 2):unable to connect to x server
xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error.
[wmorris@localhost wmorris]$
I am using mircosoft virtual pc to run mandrake mabe thats the problem cause i dont know linux at all i am trying to lern it...
