[H-GEN] Help - lost my X-server

[David]

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I hope this is the right address, even, because I've lost access to all the
details...  :-(

ok, background:
Mandrake 9.0
KDE 303
MultiSync flat panel
Chaintek TI4200 video card
VMWare running Windows 2000 Server

All was working fine, then, when trying to get dual monitors working:
d/l and install yanc
d/l and try to install NVIDIA drivers (*kernel* and *GTX*?) sorry forget the
names exactly. But the install of the kernel section failed when doing make
install. Discontinued.

I could still use the machine ok, but when I tried to use VMWare it
complained that the monitor details were "Unavailable?". I re-ran the config
perl script and it came up again. I figured everything was fine for now
until I got more details about the NVIDIA driver installation.

I'd been wanting to get Korean input working for a while and finally found
some instructions. I ran localedrake and chose Korean, which requested a
logout/in, which I did. X failed to start. This is also the first time I've
logged out/in since updating the VMWare config, so I'm not sure what has
caused this.

I know precious little about how this works, being a Linux newbie (office
friend configured it up the first time, but he's away on hols  :-( I swapped
XF86Config-4 and XF86Config-4.old to see if that would help, but didn't.
When I issue startx I get a blue screen, a wait cursor, and then it drops
back out to a command prompt. There is some error about execve and err 3?
Not sure.

Sorry about the vagaries (and the long post). Is there some default config
or fix that I can apply to get me back to an operational X server?

Thanks for any help.
best regards,
David


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