ncc50446 Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Hey Well...I messed up Mandriva...lol I was playing around with settings, and was having fun with the 3D effects. I put it on the second option (I'm sorry, I can't remember what its called...has a picture of two desktops beside each other) and it worked great. My video card could handle it (GeForce 2 MX400 64 Meg). Anyways, I tried putting it to the Third option (Shows a cube, with two desktops). It said I had to log out. So I did. Now...all I see is a grey monitor and my cursor...nothing else works...I can go to safemode, but its command line, and I don't know any commands. I know I can just reinstall, but I was hoping to learn a way to fix it. No use learning linux if I don't get my hands dirty once in a while lol Also, how do I duelboot properly? When I installed linux, it wouldn't let me boot into windows. Then when linux got messed up, I fixed my mbr, and now can't boot into linux...haha Thanks for any help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2008 Well, not sure what happened with your video settings, but from your descriptions, you selected a "dual head" system, and it worked on your two monitors (do do have two monitors? you didn't really specify). Then you selected the 3D desktop environment, which I am not familiar with, but I think would use something like emerald and compiz to manage your GUI (and requires the proprietary nVidia driver). If there is a problem with emerald, compiz or your xorg/nvidia settings, that might explain the problem. And, when you 'fixed' from Microsoft's tool, it reset it to Microsoft-only default for Windows. You should be able to boot a Linux CD and perform a grub-install. You will likely need to manually add your chainloader line to boot Windows manually with a text editor when you get Linux booting again. These are the general things that you need to do, but I don't have the specifics on how to do it, as I have never used compiz, nor have I had to do a manual grub-install. But a google for these might give you some good step-by-step instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc50446 Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 I only have one monitor. The 3D effects looked like what I saw others doing, with cubes and such, in the linux desktop screenshots, and was trying to figure out how to do the same. And I do think it was Compiz and Emerald. How would I re-set it to no 3D effects from safe mode? I'll visit google later and have a look at the grub-install and fixing it to no 3D effects as well Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 I only have one monitor. The 3D effects looked like what I saw others doing, with cubes and such, in the linux desktop screenshots, and was trying to figure out how to do the same. And I do think it was Compiz and Emerald. How would I re-set it to no 3D effects from safe mode? I'll visit google later and have a look at the grub-install and fixing it to no 3D effects as well Thanks :) Go to Synaptic and search for xgl and choose removal for xserver-xgl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2008 I don't think that Mandriva uses synaptic/apt. And his Linux doesn't boot into an X GUI at this point. Maybe sudo urpme xserver-xgl would be the Mandriva equivalent command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted April 19, 2008 Administrators Share Posted April 19, 2008 I don't think that Mandriva uses synaptic/apt. Most Mandriva users go with URPMI. You can get it set up with Easy URPMI once you get your X GUI up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch00 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 The simple solution is to start in "safe" mode, then at the prompt type "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session && metacity --replace" which will start up gnome with metacity (the default, which you had before) rather than compiz. This is assuming you are working in gnome. If you use kde the command should be "startx /usr/bin/startkde && kwin --replace". Once you are back up in a GUI, turn off the special effects and reboot back into regular mode. Hope this helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc50446 Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Awesome! Thanks! I'll give those a try! But ah...how do I get back into Linux...? haha When I did the 'fixmbr' for xp, it doesn't show grub anymore...I still have the Live cd. Can it be fixed from that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted April 20, 2008 Administrators Share Posted April 20, 2008 You'll need to re-install GRUB. There are several ways to do that. Just follow the instructions HERE. Even though the instructions are for Ubuntu, it is the same for Mandriva. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc50446 Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Thank you very much for that link! I'll try it out hopefully later tonight. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc50446 Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 The thing to setup grub worked, thank you Barney :) However the thing to change it to kwin didn't work...the screen went blank for a moment, then a long error. To much to write down by hand, as I had to go to work in a few minutes, but it pretty much said 'Kwin: cannot connect to X server' I am using kde 3.5. I'm checked and double checked, and I didn't notice any typo's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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