Starting linux in Graphical mode.

[santosh2natal]

Hi all,

I am a newbie for Linux. I have a problem when I starts Red Hat Linux 7.2. Though I have installed linux to start in Graphical mode, it prompts me to enter user id and password in text mode. I enter the same properly and it shows command prompt also.
But I don’t know how to go in graphical mode like KDE or GNOME. How can handle this problem? Please suggest me.

My motherboard is of Asus with the chipset as ATI Radeon 9100 IGP with 128 on board video RAM.

Thanx in advance.

- Santosh

 

[Trekkie]

Well, I quite don't understand what you really mean but I believe you want boot directly to GUI. In order to boot directly to GUI mode, you'll need to edit /etc/inittab
from (change 5 to 3)
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

then reboot your system.


T.k.

 

[marsd]

The permanent answer is the above. Change your bootup
config in inittab to start at a RL that starts your
X.
OTOH a simple xinit <window manager name>, or startx
from the console will get the ball rolling too.

 

[stefanwagner]

On my system it's the other way round:

runlevel 5 = multiuser, networking and X11
runlevel 3 = multiuser, networking no X11

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