On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Jason Ash <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm going through the stable BLFS book, and I just installed kdelibs and 
> kdebase 3.5.9. I also configured my xinitrc file to start kde automatically 
> upon typing startx. When I type startx, it went through the KDE 
> personalization wizard, then said, "initializing devices ... >kde is up and 
> running." However, the only thing that appears is a mouse cursor on a blank, 
> black background without anything else >showing. I wonder what I did wrong 
> because the X server worked with its default twm, and KDE is the only other 
> windows manager >I've installed. I outputted the text of what happens after I 
> type startx for you to examine. I'm a newbie at LFS, but I'm learning little 
> >by little.
I'd advise you NOT to use current stable BLFS right now, and not to
use LFS 6.3. Please use LFS 6.5, and BLFS SVN, it should work for you.


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