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Craig Smith wrote: | 2. installed kde 'apt-get install kde' ctr-alt-del to restart in X-windows. | didn't work. Thought maybe X server wasn't installed with kde so: | apt-get install x-window-system. ctr-alt-del and it looks like x display | manager tries to start but fails. In fact, the window blinks 3 times.
X is NOT a requirement to run kde. YOu might be running KDE binaries from this machine but displaying them on an Xserver to another machine.
|>In theory, everything should already be installed if apt-get did indeed |>install all the dependencies for KDE. You should now be able to change |>the runlevels to the one for X, which will start kdm. With some |>distros X starts in runlevel 5 (e.g. init 5), but I believe Debian uses |>runlevel 3. Check /etc/inittab to be sure.
Debian uses Runlevel 2. And is actually smarter than some of the other distros when it comes to X. Whereas RedHat treats Xwindows as some special program that has to be run from /etc/inittab, Debian treats xdm/kdm/gdm as a normal service like the rest of the daemons on the system.
A few things you can do. STOP rebooting with Ctrl+Alt+Del. all services that can be run are in /etc/init.d/. To start kdm--the K display manager, make sure it is installed (apt-get install kdm). Then run /etc/init.d/kdm start
Now if Xwindows is not properly working kdm cannot work either.
To test Xwindows run X
IF you get a working screen with tiny checkerboard try moving the mouse. ~ When finished testing, type Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X.
If X is NOT configured try X -configure It will tell you where it puts the new config file and how to run it. X -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new
If that works better than the default setup copy that file into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
If that just sucks--which it usually does on debian and i get 320x240--try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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