X freezing after updating from 10.0 to 10.1

[Bill Mudry]

This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1.
Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel
took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to
work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue
screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but
there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work
at all.  This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch
of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt.

The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even
another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been
able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at
least the machine can take commands.


I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my field
of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui screen and
browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What recommendations
do you have?

Mr. hopeful,

Bill Mudry
Mississauga, Ontario


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