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    Getting KDE and Installing On Mandrake 10.1

    Ok everyone I figured out the problem. I began exactly the same as everyone above. Through many different websites I pieced together the solution. First, look for the error, it comes immediately before the Fatal Error line. It usually (but not always I think) starts with (EE). More than likely this will give you the exact place of the problem, and if not it should give you a starting place. Second, this is the hardest thing to answer, "how do I fix it?" Well the simply answer is mess around with the settings. I got the no screen to load or whatever it says line so I had a good idea it was my monitor or video card. So I used the "xorgconfig" command and just kept changing one thing at a time. I had onboard video and didn't know my video card so I just kept trying different video cards and finally got it working. Be patient, took me like 5 hours of messing around and reading. You could use a text editor "vi" and edit the file that holds all the info for your settings, but that was too difficult for me. But if you want to try it you would type vi /etc/X11/xcon.fig (The file name is above the Fatal error line. I've forgotten it and it's late) The last thing I would say is many of you on here try to help, but forget that this none graphical world is difficult from us coming from Windows. One website told me to edit the file and save and exit. Well that is easy, if you know how to do that. Like above to start editing you could us "vi" "file name" and use the editor (which is difficult in it's own right). To save and exit you have to type :wq. If you do not want to save but you want to exit you have to type :q!. All these little things make it hard for us to wade through the water and we come for help to get through this rough patches. The best thing to do is google vi commands or something. I would just like to see you guys dumb it down some more. I know I read this post and got absolutly no where. You guys assumed the problem was that we didn't load the KDE, but I did and I bet most everyone else did, so move and try to solve the problem without assuming you know the fix and dwelling on it. That is my 2 cents, sorry if it's mean, just way too long on one problem that was rather easy and hope this helps someone else save an immense amount of time.
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