On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:40:35PM -0700, Joubin Moshrefzadeh wrote: > Ok, I successfully had stable running on my Ultra 5 with no problems > for a few months. But I was a bit disappointed with the age of some of > the apps, so deciding between backports and going to testing, I chose > the latter route. > > So following the instructions at > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html I > proceeded, having to (re)issue apt-get -f install several times when > the upgrade would stop with some error, and then (re)issue apt-get -t > testing dist-upgrade... etc. Anyway, after some time and several > cycles through this process, I the upgrade ended with no reported > errors... great!!
This process is usually easier if you don't install anything beforehand.. :-) > However, now.. after startx, I get the gray thatch screen and I can > see my mouse (which responds to mouse movements) but thats it... the > window manager never comes up (before the KDE window showing whats > being loaded would come up at this point, but no more). if I ssh in, i > see the following processes: what processes? If your mouse is moving, then this sounds like a KDE problem, and not an X problem. Check your ~/.xsession-errors, and try installing some other windowmanager(apt-cache showpkg x-window-manger) and see how that works. -- -Justin