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by tbealmear

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Somehow, in my messing with some settings, or something, my Mandrake 9.1 now starts in command line interface instead of the gui (which i think is xfree). how do i change it bac?

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by tbealmear

Nope, it is KDE. Sorry about that. I actually got it to run, but how do i set to always run at startup? Thanks.

by toivo talikka

At least in RedHat and Fedora the selection between runlevel 3 and 5 (GUI) is done in /etc/inittab.

If the system starts in GUI, it has the following line after the initial comments listing all the runlevels:

id:5:initdefault:

by jaqui

the simple way:
start the gui from console.
run the Mandrake Control Center
select Boot from the options.
make sure that launch xserver at boot is selected.
hit okay

the hard way:
run linux config.
boot section
default boot mode
make sure it's set to Graphic and Network.

kmenu if in gui mode:
menu:Configuration:other:linuxconf
then close the keybindings window
then follow the same steps as for console mode linuxconf.

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