Can you give us a rundown of your hardware?  Also, maybe someone on the
list who has some spare time could visit you and help you configure X for
your hardware?



On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Michael Kline wrote:

> Please bear with me, I am not a IT Professional.  I have just purchased Mandrake 8.0 and have installed on a new clean drive. I am running a AMD processor and had 256meg of RAM.  The installation went smoothly with no problems using the expert mode.  The problems began when i rebooted the first time. X-windows started but I am not sure that it started correctly. The screen flashed a few times, came up with a grey dotted screen, then a blue screen, with an arrow pointer. Then i keep getting error messages susch as: application "keyboard-properties" (process 1899) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation Fault)
> What is a segmentation fault? Each time I startx the results are different. This last time I had no error messages, when Gnome started.  When starting KDE desktop I get nothing but  error messages saying that certain parts of the application have crashed and have sent out a
> signal 11.  I have been reading and reading all the books and internet sites on Linux--so much information i don't know where to start to put it all together.
>     I know that i installed the packages that i wanted during the install, such as game station and staroffice52, but how do I go about getting them to run--I can't even find them. what am i doing wrong.  probly something simple. but I don't know where to start.  please help if possible so I don't have to make Linux shelfware and put in Windows.  Does anyone know where the Gnome application crash page can be found? I would like to see how a properly configured Linux machine works.  frustrated but not giving up!!
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