From Text login to graphical

[lowell]

The command you want is "Xconfigurator" (without the quotes) to write 
your XF86Config file, if that's what you wanted to do. To start the X 
windows system, type "startx" and X will come up running your default 
window manager (prolly KDE).

Greg Dougherty wrote:

>Ok,
>
>After much torture, i now have YDL 2.3 installed on my computer.  I have two
>monitors, a ViewSonic GS815, and a ViewSonic G810.  YDL doesn't know about the
>GS815 (which is too bad, because it's my "main" monitor), but, through the magic
>of fiddling with cables and the Monitors Control Panel, I know have YDL coming
>up in text mode on my G810 (which was in the list of monitors when I set it up).
>
>So, I told YDL to use the monitor in 1152 x 8?2 x 75Hz, that being the closest I
>could find to my normal setting of 1152 x 870 x 75 Hz.  I also told it to do the
>text login (I've had a hell of a time when installing it to default to
>graphics).
>
>So, now that I have it logging me in fine, how do I get kde or gnome up?  I
>tried logging in as root and then typing "xconfigure", that didn't work.  What
>does work?
>
>TIA,
>
>Greg
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