Help! (mandrake linux)

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check your config file -set it to boot to runlevel5

I believe the first time you have to login from the command prompt, with Mandrake, then do what Xaimus recommended. Or even just login and type "startx" at the command prompt. If an error is returned and x is unable to start, then it could be due to unsupported hardware (usually video-related). I've got one system with a Guillamot 4000XT (Kyro II chipset) video card which is unsupported by pretty much every OS out there (including Windows....drivers always have to be installed from the disk), and I seem to recall that Mandrake's X would not run on that system (...and I'm not Linux savvy enough to get it working ).

Pretty much everything you needed to know was already posted, but thought I'd just add a little insight from personal experience.

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This is off-topic, but, does it not work with the generic VESA driver?

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Yea It would work fine for 2D (logically) -- but the 3D would be affected by the use of ithe kryoII's tile based rendering

I've been unable to get that particular card to work with Mandrake, even with the Vesa driver. Like I said, I'm not uber-savvy in Linux (just know enough to get around, configure a few programs, and network a little...), so I'm sure somebody more knowledgeable would be able to get it working...but the way I look at it, there's so many distros out there, if I can't get a particular one to work the way I want and do the specific things I need that particular box to do, I just install a different distro.