AIRPLANEIT at aol.com wrote: > I'm having a heckuva time finding a good mirror for the new release of Mandrake... is it possible for someone to upload their ISO's to Gladiator? Alternately, can someone suggest a reliable mirror? ftp.mn-linux.org (which is gladiator) has a mirror, but it is currently still at 9.1 rc2. Maybe you already knew that, since you are asking for a *current* mirror of 9.1. But I was able to get my system up to 9.1 by installing rc2, then updating to Cooker, which by now is the same as 9.1 Final. > What nationality is Mandrakesoft? Is the company's home base in France or elsewhere? French, based in France. > How does Mandrake 8.2 start XFree? I had to manually edit XFree86-Config-4 and every time I run XFDrake it edits the file back to its old settings. But at the end of configuring X with XFDrake, it asks if I want the computer to boot into X. So right now the computer isn't set to run X at boot. I have to log on as root, then run gdm. Is that what Mandrake does, just starts gdm at boot? Should I just ad a script to rc5.d to make starting gdm the last thing it does at boot? Thanks for any help anyone can give... If you manually edit XFree86-Config-4, and then use XFDrake, yes, you will lose your manual changes. This is because XFDrake keeps its own meta-copy of XFree85-Config-4, and it makes changes to the meta-copy before finally writing the actual file. When you edit the real file, the meta-copy is not changed, and XFDrake is unaware that it is blowing away your config. Basically, you either live with XFDrake for everything, or don't use it at all after the first config is done. Well, in actuality the system starts X based on its runlevel, in /etc/inittab. Look for the line: id:5:initdefault: The "5" indicates runlevel 5, which tells the system to start X automatically upon boot. Your system will have a 3, meaning you have a text-only boot, from which you can login and "startx". Change the 3 to a 5, and the system will take care of starting X on boot. Beyond this, yes, there is a display manager that runs first, to allow a graphical login. Mandrake defaults to kdm, the KDE display manager, but you can change it to use Gnome display manager (gdm) or even the basic xdm (for which gdm is really just a pretty front end, while kdm is its own program). Check the /etc/X11/prefdm script to see how the display manager is launched. Hope this helps. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA "If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list