Hi Jason I had the same experience when I first installed BLFS 6.3 on one machine with an old CRT monitor (Philips -n 105S). I then tried on another machine, with a flat screen (LCD) with nvidia 7 series. The installation was superb, it is like a professional distro in appearance and far better than other distros. In my second attempt, I made sure that all the dependencies, even some optional ones I thought important, were met, since I an not yet an expert to able to identify the specific source of a problem.
I am sorry, I cannot give you direct answer to your problem. My only advice is to try again, even on different machines. Good luck! Mfundisi Dumisa -----Original Message----- From: blfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:blfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Jason Ash Sent: 25 November 2009 05:18 PM To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: KDE blank screen Hi, I'm going through the stable BLFS book, and I just installed kdelibs and kdebase 3.5.9. I also configured my xinitrc file to start kde automatically upon typing startx. When I type startx, it went through the KDE personalization wizard, then said, "initializing devices ... kde is up and running." However, the only thing that appears is a mouse cursor on a blank, black background without anything else showing. I wonder what I did wrong because the X server worked with its default twm, and KDE is the only other windows manager I've installed. I outputted the text of what happens after I type startx for you to examine. I'm a newbie at LFS, but I'm learning little by little. xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2659 X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.22.5 i686 Current Operating System: Linux Amazing 2.6.22.5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 07:14:39 MST 2009 i686 Build Date: 18 November 2009 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 25 14:47:56 2009 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (**) RADEON(0): RADEONPreInit FATAL: Module radeon not found. (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. (**) RADEON(0): RADEONScreenInit f0000000 0 (**) RADEON(0): Map: 0xf0000000, 0x08000000 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSave (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveMode(0x81edda0) (**) RADEON(0): Read: 0x0000000c 0x00030065 0x00000000 (**) RADEON(0): Read: rd=12, fd=101, pd=3 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveMode returns 0x81edda0 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONInitMemoryMap() : (**) RADEON(0): mem_size : 0x08000000 (**) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0xf7fff000 (**) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0xffffffc0 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONModeInit() 2048x1536 266.95 2048 2200 2424 2800 1536 1537 1540 1589 (24,32) -H +V 2048x1536 266.95 2048 2200 2424 2800 1536 1537 1540 1589 (24,32) -H +V (**) RADEON(0): Pitch = 16777472 bytes (virtualX = 2048, displayWidth = 2048) (**) RADEON(0): dc=26694, of=26694, fd=119, pd=1 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONInit returns 0x81ee750 (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode() (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode(0x81ee750) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (**) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0xf7fff000 (**) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0xffffffc0 (**) RADEON(0): Map Changed ! Applying ... (**) RADEON(0): Map applied, resetting engine ... (**) RADEON(0): Updating display base addresses... (**) RADEON(0): Memory map updated. (**) RADEON(0): Programming CRTC1, offset: 0x00000000 (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: 0x0000000c 0x00000077 0x00000000 (0x0000a700) (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=12, fd=119, pd=0 (**) RADEON(0): GRPH_BUFFER_CNTL from 20205c5c to 202c5c5c (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(0) (**) RADEON(0): Setting up initial surfaces (**) RADEON(0): Initializing fb layer (**) RADEON(0): Setting up accel memmap (**) RADEON(0): Initializing backing store (**) RADEON(0): Setting up final surfaces (**) RADEON(0): Initializing Acceleration (**) RADEON(0): EngineInit (32/32) (**) RADEON(0): Pitch for acceleration = 256 (**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (32/32) (**) RADEON(0): Initializing DPMS (**) RADEON(0): Initializing Cursor (**) RADEON(0): Initializing color map (**) RADEON(0): Initializing DGA (**) RADEON(0): Initializing Xv (**) RADEON(0): RADEONScreenInit finished (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(2) startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... kded: WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype KDEDModule not found kded: WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype KDEDModule not found kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 klauncher: Fatal IO error: client killed (**) RADEON(0): RADEONCloseScreen (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRIStop (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet(0,0x0) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestore (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode() (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode(0x81edda0) (**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (**) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x1fff0000 (**) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x27ff2000 (**) RADEON(0): Map Changed ! Applying ... XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 145 requests (140 known processed) with 0 events remaining. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. (**) RADEON(0): Map applied, resetting engine ... (**) RADEON(0): Updating display base addresses... X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). (**) RADEON(0): Memory map updated. (**) RADEON(0): Programming CRTC1, offset: 0x00000000 (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: 0x0000000c 0x00030065 0x00000000 (0x0000a700) (**) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=12, fd=101, pd=3 (**) RADEON(0): Disposing accel... (**) RADEON(0): Disposing cusor info (**) RADEON(0): Disposing DGA (**) RADEON(0): Unmapping memory FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. xinit: connection to X server lost. Hangup GOT SIGHUP DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts... xprop: unable to open display ':0' usage: xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ... where options include: -grammar print out full grammar for command line -display host:dpy the X server to contact -id id resource id of window to examine -name name name of window to examine -font name name of font to examine -remove propname remove a property -set propname value set a property to a given value -root examine the root window -len n display at most n bytes of any property -notype do not display the type field -fs filename where to look for formats for properties -frame don't ignore window manager frames -f propname format [dformat] formats to use for property of given name -spy examine window properties forever startkde: Done. 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