Re: X configuration (amd64)
On 1/2/06, David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:57:53 -0500Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and runapt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde(trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :))X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, How do you know that?What signs are there that one, or both, of these isrunning? no, either one or the other. first tried GNOME, then KDE the login screen collects password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step Which login screen, xdm or gdm?If gdm, you can log into a termninal to fixthe ~/.xession problems.I presume you can with xdm as well. gdm. Can I? I don'trecall (I'm not at the console right now) anything on the login screen suggesting a terminal client. (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption Window Manager but it stops there, no additional loads happen. It may be that your ~/.xsession (or the defaut one) has both kde and gnome,somehow.It shouldn't, of course.Your ~/.xsession should end withexec gnome-session(no after that).This presumes you want to start with gnome.kde users will tell you what to do for that. No ~/.xsession. But got ~/.xsession-errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .xsession-errorsXsession: X session started for ams at Mon Jan 2 12:21:57 EST 2006SESSION_MANAGER=local/sella:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4446QFont::setPointSize: Point size = 0 (-3) DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socketLink points to /tmp/ksocket-amsLink points to /tmp/kde-amskbuildsycoca running...Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Thanks, it gives me a direction to follow. -a --David L. Johnson__o | Let's be straight here.If we find something we can't_`\(,_| understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or (_)/ (_) | indeed even pronounce.-- Douglas Adams
Re: X configuration (amd64)
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login screen collects password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption Window Manager but it stops there, no additional loads happen. If I click on the icon, the square disappers and I'm lef with the background. If I kill X, kdm/gdm will restart it. If I leave it alone, the screen saver kicks in. Seems to me that the window manager fails to load. Any suggestions what I should check? TIA, -a Just a wild guess. Is the lo (loopback interface) configured properly? You can check whether it is up or not by running /sbin/ifconfig . On my system I see something ike loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:55150 (53.8 KiB) TX bytes:55150 (53.8 KiB) What about your system? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration (amd64)
On 1/2/06, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login screen collects password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption Window Manager but it stops there, no additional loads happen. If I click on the icon, the square disappers and I'm lef with the background. If I kill X, kdm/gdm will restart it. If I leave it alone, the screen saver kicks in. Seems to me that the window manager fails to load. Any suggestions what I should check? TIA, -a Just a wild guess. Is the lo (loopback interface) configured properly? You can check whether it is up or not by running /sbin/ifconfig . On my system I see something ike loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:55150 (53.8 KiB) TX bytes:55150 (53.8 KiB) What about your system? Good guess, didn't occur to me to check, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't think it's the case. I don't see any dropped packets: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:295 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:295 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:215211 (210.1 KiB) TX bytes:215211 (210.1 KiB) raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration (amd64)
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:57:53 -0500 Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, How do you know that? What signs are there that one, or both, of these is running? the login screen collects password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step Which login screen, xdm or gdm? If gdm, you can log into a termninal to fix the ~/.xession problems. I presume you can with xdm as well. (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption Window Manager but it stops there, no additional loads happen. It may be that your ~/.xsession (or the defaut one) has both kde and gnome, somehow. It shouldn't, of course. Your ~/.xsession should end with exec gnome-session (no after that). This presumes you want to start with gnome. kde users will tell you what to do for that. -- David L. Johnson __o | Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't _`\(,_ | understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or (_)/ (_) | indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
