Me again...
FYI, changing (or removing) the 'vga=' line in my menu.lst file had no
effect. I resigned myself to reinstalling the original kde2.1 and starting
over again. It seems to have worked. Possibly more on that later...
Tim
Previously, Tim Wunder wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have had the same problem with just a standard install. Your best bet
> > is to look at /var/log/gui for details on what is happening at X start
> > and why it's resetting.
> >
> > Mine seems to happen when I remove the "vga=791" from the kernel line in
> > GRUB's menu.lst file. The VGA parm makes my CLI difficult to read (tiny
> > characters) but X seems to work. When I remove it or replace it with the
> > "vga=274" which was placed at install on another eW3.1 box, X doesn't
> > start.
> >
> > ???
>
> Hi Matt,
> Now that does't make any sense at all... but, I'll try it when I get home.
> I did, in fact, change my menu.lst file to get rid of the graphical boot
> screen, so I guess it COULD be the problem. It'll be easy enough to
> experiment with, anyway.
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> > Tim Wunder
> > <twunder@iwmail. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Sent by: Subject: eW3.1 and KDE2.2
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> > 08/30/01 11:36
> > PM
> > Please respond
> > to linux-users
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> > Considering all the trouble I've been having getting my eD2.4 install
> > up to snuff, I decided to try migrating to eW3.1, which I have
> > installed on a test partition. I downloaded and installed kernel 2.4.9
> > and X4.1.0 without too much difficulty. I then tried to start
> > installing KDE2.2 from the SRPMs I was using under eD2.4, but ended up
> > with some compile issues. Rather than debug that, I decided to
> > download the pre-compiled RPMs. After installing all packages, I tried
> > to telinit 5 to start KDE2.2, but it doesn't want to work.
> > kdm starts, but before a login screen displays, X restarts. This
> > happens repeatedly (X starts - doesn't get to kdm login - x restarts)
> > until kdm apparently gives up and I get an error message, 'Id "gu"
> > respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes'. If I don't telinit 3,
> > then the cycle gets repeated in 5 minutes.
> > 'startx' works. I get an xsession and can run non-kde programs
> > (composing this in Netscape), but when trying to run KDE apps from
> > plain X, they fail with an error "error while loading shared
> > libraries: /opt/kde2/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol:
> > stylChange_8QToolBarR6QStyle", but I'm not at all sure whether that's
> > relevent to my problem.
> > /var/log/messages has:
> > kdm[1781]:Greeter returned non-zero exit code 32512
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
> > kdm[1802]:Greeter returned non-xero exit code 32512
> >
> > So this looks like an error with kdm, or kdmrc.
> > Any clues?
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
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