On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:20:39AM -0700, Phillip.J.Crump at WellsFargo.COM wrote: >Running Mandrake 7.1 > >When the system boots up it gets to the screen with the Penguin and then What exactly is the "Screen with the penguin" >gives me a message >"INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Sounds to me like X won't start. Since it's spawned from inittab it keeps trying. Double check to make sure your XF86Config file is correct. Most times X won't start due to a mouse not working. Set your default runlevel to 4 by editing /etc/inittab, try to boot and then login as root and attempt to run "startx" use this method to debug your X configuration, then change your default runlevel back to 5 and try again. HTH -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. What's the difference between root and God ? God doesn't think that he is root. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010808/c7f8b62a/attachment.pgp