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Gui Not Displaying In Linux 8.0
Name: Ravi Date: July 29, 2003 at 00:09:50 Pacific OS: LINUX CPU/Ram: Compaq ML 370 G2/1 GB
Comment:
Unable to access GUI mode for LINUX 8.0 No GUI desktop is present when server was reported. Can any one help me.
Name: rhursto Date: July 29, 2003 at 01:30:12 Pacific
Reply:
Log on then type startx. This will start the GUI.
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Response Number 2
Name: SoulSniper Date: July 29, 2003 at 03:12:57 Pacific
Reply:
And there's no such thing as Linux 8,
Currently the kernel is about 2.4. Your thinking of either Red hat 8 or Mandrake 8
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Response Number 3
Name: _Samer_ Date: July 29, 2003 at 06:57:26 Pacific
Reply:
SoulSniper,
to be technical about it,
you said "Your thinking of either..."
it should be "You are" or "You're"
Cheers, Samer
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Response Number 4
Name: rhursto Date: July 29, 2003 at 07:58:49 Pacific
Reply:
Lol..................
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Response Number 5
Name: jimmyds Date: July 29, 2003 at 11:30:56 Pacific
Reply:
I noticed that you got yours and my problem fixed with your statement. Someone understood the statement and replied. Thanks for the answer. Now if you could tell me how to get this 2.4 to boot to the GUI instead of the Text Mode you could make my day. I have been searching for the answer for quite some time. Thanks JDS
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Response Number 6
Name: taurus Date: July 29, 2003 at 12:19:29 Pacific
Reply:
Edit /etc/inittab and change the value from 3 to 5,
id:5:initdefault:
That's all there is...
taurus
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Response Number 7
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: July 29, 2003 at 13:03:56 Pacific
Reply:
you do not get linux 2.4 boot into gui. Linux is the kernel. It cannot boot into GUI. It doesn't even have a gui. What you want to do is start into runlevel 5 when you boot the system which is usually configured to start "Xfree86" on most distros and load "xdm", "gdm" or "kdm" so you can login graphically. I think you're from India so you're probably talking about redhat 8.0 as people often wrongly call it "linux 8" here. As taurus says, just edit /etc/inittab to boot into runlevel 5.
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