Thanks for all the help. Last night I took the bit in my teeth and did a fresh install of debian 6.0.0 amd6. KDE now starts ok but I still have some fine tuning to do.
Robin On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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