when i installed linux, after initial system setup i come to a login screen. normally (on previous installations) i would see this screen for a mere few seconds before i am moved to gui. so i enter my root login, yet I can't go into graphical bit. when i installed i did server install (and I have fedora running alongside xp which is hda1 and fedora is hda2). In fact i had many problems dual booting xp-fedora, the problem i was having was sometimes boot loader won't run, or there would be system disk error. But now, I have this problem no able to access the graphical screen, am i doin anything wrong or what. would there be a command that takes you to graphical mode, i thought it was ctrl+alt+f7, tried that but screen goes blank Thanks in advance. simon

look in what runlevel you are # who -r run-level 5 Mar 3 01:08 last=S if your answer gives 3 instead of 5 then that is the problem. run: # init 5 and you will be in the GUI (if you installed a X-server and window-manager) if you want the system to automatically go to runlevel 5 change the line id:3:initdefault: in the file /etc/inittab to id:5:initdefault:

First of thank you for the feedback. yes i did change to init 5 but lines with ok at end seem to appear and then back to prompt. do you think i should boot again and upgrade. simon

try # startx & and see if it gives you error messages. it could be that your X-configuration is't set up correctly..

HI ! Please try the command : redhat-config-xfree86 and then check logfile Ok Bye Anup Li