and... according to the specs on that mobo, you have a Radeon HD 4250 which should work just fine with the xorg-radeon driver. Its included with Debian so there's no need to mess with the proprietary stuff.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, thats weird. startx should be there as long as xorg is installed. > Anyways, lets go with the original problem... $DISPLAY is an environment > variable which you should not need to deal with unless the upgrade mussed up > some of the config somewhere. Try this: log in as your normal user and 'mv > ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old' and 'mv ~/.xsession ~/.xsession.old'. This will > get these files out of the way for the time being (and back them up if case > we need to put them back) and hopefully, kde can now start and create new > versions of them. Kaboom is a migration wizard to go from kde3 to kde4 and i > suspect it may have caused the problem. > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Richard Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the tips. I have tried "startx" but got "command not found". >> The version of debian testing I'm using is amd64. I believe the video card >> is embodied in the motherboard; Gigabyte GA880-GM-UD2H. >> >> Robin >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 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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