On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Mel Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 am a huge fan of the netinstall. It has been my go to installer for more than 10 years. > > 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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