On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:24:28 -0700 (PDT)
Dick Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> NOTE: THIS IS MY SECOND ATTEMPT TO POST THIS MESSAGE (THE PREVIOUS
>       BEING APR. 5)
>       AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG HERE? OR JUST BEING IMPATIENT?

(see Egbert's message ...)

> verbose error messages; startx worked (after a fashion) but I
> couldn't get KDE to run.

Well, if KDE didn't get started after upgrading to 4.2.0, *which* sort of
graphical environment / desktop manager did you see while running startx?
Tried to place something, like, "exec startkde" into your $HOME/.xinitrc
file, or do you rely on some graphical login like [g|k]dm? 
 
> Beyond that, what light can anyone shed on getting KDE (or icewm) to run
> with XFree 4.2.0?

>From the "building-from-sources" - point of view: Did that with KDE,
several times, and haven't seen any problems so far. Never tried icewm by
now, but guess it should work as well. 

Cheers,
Kris

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