Hi Robin, Which installer did you use? What was your impression of the installers? I think the version X.0 's tend to be the most "fun filled" :)
I want to do an install soon, but have to look at some hardware issues first. As soon as I can acquire some spare time. From the sound of things, I think acing my data backup will lead to a more auspicious adventure. Mel On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Richard Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. 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