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Can't start KDE after ATI driver install under Madrake 9

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aka1nas

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I just installed the ATI linux drivers for my radeon 9700 and now when I boot linux, it sends me straight to the command line. I tried changing run levels, but it will not bring up X. I'm very much a linux noob still, so could anyone give me a clue as to what I need to do to fix this?
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
I just installed the ATI linux drivers for my radeon 9700 and now when I boot linux, it sends me straight to the command line. I tried changing run levels, but it will not bring up X. I'm very much a linux noob still, so could anyone give me a clue as to what I need to do to fix this?
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is it trying to start X? i would assume it is, and is unable to. are any error messages coming up? or does it just casually boot to the text login with no sign of problems?
 
Try startx and give us a report of what happens, paying special attention to errors.

Someone needs to send me a high end nVidia card and a high end ATi card so I can write better, more up to date documentation on installing the drivers for these cards. 😀
 
When trying startx, I got an error message which mentioned:

(EE)unable to open/locate config files
(EE)error from xf86HandleConfigFiles()

Fatal Server error
No screens found

XIO: Fatal error 104

It doesn't seem to start X at all when I boot up, just does the normal mandrake startup, then dumps me to a command line.
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
When trying startx, I got an error message which mentioned:

(EE)unable to open/locate config files
(EE)error from xf86HandleConfigFiles()

Fatal Server error
No screens found

XIO: Fatal error 104

It doesn't seem to start X at all when I boot up, just does the normal mandrake startup, then dumps me to a command line.
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looks like your config file is gone, or has bad permissions. ls -l /etc/X11
 
ls -i in that directory didn't show any other config files. I tried opening up xf86Config-4.old up in emacs and in VI, but it looked like a blank file. What should I do to restore this?
 
XFree86 -Config is giving me an error message too. It's kinda long though. Unfortunately, I can't do anything to the log file as I can't get X started and for some reason I can't access /mnt
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
XFree86 -Config is giving me an error message too. It's kinda long though. Unfortunately, I can't do anything to the log file as I can't get X started and for some reason I can't access /mnt
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/usr/x11/bin/xf86config
 
Are you logging in as root? You should be able to get to /mnt if you are. Can you rerun your setup program at the point where you set up the video subsystem using the bootable CD? You didn't say what Linux version you are using. Some of them put the XFree86Config in a different place, like up one level in the tree (SuSE 🙂.
 
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