and btw, i also am using testing and ran a dist-upgrade last night. Xorg was upgraded so i had to re-do the nvidia drivers. very likely this is your problem.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Btw, i see you're running a 64-bit processor but are you also running > 64-bit Debian? Here's some instructions for building the nvidia driver: > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers If i remember right, there's > some differences with the 64-bit procedure which you'll have to google if > thats what you need. > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The kernel headers are required to re-compile the kernel module but but in >> the upgrade, only the source packages are upgraded. you still need to go >> through the process of building the module. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Joseph Hume <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On my daughters Kubuntu 10.10 laptop if there is a kernel update I just >>> need to install the matching kernel headers to allow the nvidia video >>> driver to properly install before I reboot. >>> >>> >>> On 2/7/2011 9:35 AM, Rick Johnson wrote: >>> >>> did you try 'startx'? And btw, upgrades or dist-upgrades should be done >>> without kde running (or gnome etc.). '/etc/init.d/kdm stop', log in as root >>> and then 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'. Otherwise you are going >>> to upgrade packages that are running at the time and you can often break >>> things this way. Also, if you are using a ATI or nvidia card with >>> proprietary drivers, you will need to re-install the driver if X or the >>> kernel is upgraded. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Richard Carter >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> I have been running debian 6.0 testing on a desktop with an amd64 >>>> processor. Before shutting down last night I used synaptic to check for >>>> and >>>> install upgrades: many were installed. >>>> >>>> This morning kde won't start. When I boot the system goes into what I >>>> interpret as "terminal mode". When I type in "startkde" as user I get >>>> "DISPLAY is not set or cannot to the X server". When I type "startkde" as >>>> su I get: >>>> ------ Kaboom Settings Dump------ >>>> kdehome - "/root/.kde" - exists? YES >>>> kde4 - "/root/kde4" - exists? NO >>>> kdebackup - "/root/kde3-backup" exists? NO >>>> kdestamp = "/root/.local/kaboom" exists? NO >>>> kaboom log - "/root/.kaboom.log" >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> kaboom cannot connect to X server >>>> >>>> I tried using apt-get to install kde but was told the newest version >>>> was all ready installed. >>>> >>>> Fortunately I already have a recent backup. I have downloaded debian >>>> 6.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso and I'm considering re-installing. Does >>>> anyone >>>> have a better idea? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing >>> [email protected]http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >> >> >
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