Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:04:06PM -0700, Louis Cunningham wrote: I am just going to stick with Ubuntu for now, Thank you all for your help. This was a pain in Ubuntu too, but it's set up how I want it, one question though; I have grub running off of the Debian OS if I format it, will my

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Kent West
Louis Cunningham wrote: I'll try out vesa, and I have a ubuntu xorg.conf, but even when I put that in, it failed :\, i also don't have internet, so that puts anything but, well kde out of the picture for now, but i'll work on that later. so how can I go around using vesa? because nothing

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:19 -0500, Kent West wrote: Louis Cunningham wrote: Kent, Let me encourage you to keep the posts on the mailing list: 1) others can provide input (and you need their input, 'cause I'm pretty limited in my ability to help), 2) others can benefit from monitoring

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:32 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip You can not stop that. This is the current correct behavior. The xorg.conf reconfiguration you expect is old school and now your X would probably start with out even an xorg.conf file. You could try xorg -configure and see

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Louis Cunningham
Tried Kent's way, and no go. KDM does start up, it says so and whenever i type it in in tty it gives back no errors, however whenever I type in startx, it cannot be found. is it possible that KDM is starting on my other video port, ie the one that is built into the motherboard? In our Lord

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:34 -0700, Louis Cunningham wrote: Tried Kent's way, and no go. KDM does start up, it says so and whenever i type it in in tty it gives back no errors, however whenever I type in startx, it cannot be found. is it possible that KDM is starting on my other video port,

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:34 -0700, Louis Cunningham wrote: Tried Kent's way, and no go. KDM does start up, it says so and whenever i type it in in tty it gives back no errors, however whenever I type in startx, it cannot be found. is it possible that KDM is starting on my other video port,

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Louis Cunningham
Sorry you got snipped, off, saying anything else? I will try startx, kdm, and X-configure as root, (su -c startx etc), and then will get back. In our Lord Jesus Christ, Louie Cunningham It is for us to become holy here and now, for we cannot be certain whether we will be here this evening. -

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Louis Cunningham
I am just going to stick with Ubuntu for now, Thank you all for your help. This was a pain in Ubuntu too, but it's set up how I want it, one question though; I have grub running off of the Debian OS if I format it, will my system not boot? How to fix this thank you. In our Lord Jesus Christ,

KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Louis Cunningham
Hello, I just installed Debian KDE on my computer, however I am on wifi, and I cannot get the Nvidia drivers off of the internet. Right now, I can boot into KDE, with the gui, but apart from that there are no icons, and everytime I left click, I get a teale colored menu box. I know that I am

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Louis Cunningham
Hello, I just installed Debian KDE on my computer, however I am on wifi, and I cannot get the Nvidia drivers off of the internet. Right now, I can boot into KDE, with the gui, but apart from that there are no icons, and everytime I left click, I get a teale colored menu box. I know

KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Louis Cunningham
Hello, I just installed Debian KDE on my computer, however I am on wifi, and I cannot get the Nvidia drivers off of the internet. Right now, I can boot into KDE, with the gui, but apart from that there are no icons, and everytime I left click, I get a teale colored menu box. I know that I am

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Kent West
Louis Cunningham wrote: I just installed Debian KDE on my computer, however I am on wifi, and I cannot get the Nvidia drivers off of the internet. Right now, I can boot into KDE, with the gui, but apart from that there are no icons, and everytime I left click, I get a teale colored menu

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Kent West
Louis Cunningham wrote: Kent, Let me encourage you to keep the posts on the mailing list: 1) others can provide input (and you need their input, 'cause I'm pretty limited in my ability to help), 2) others can benefit from monitoring the conversation, and 3) the information thus gets archived

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Louis Cunningham
What happens is that the reconfigure will run, and then it will just stop abnormally. It is like the program is done, but it is not because I never get to set my screen or video card etc. This leaves my xorg.conf looking like this: # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) #

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Kent West
Louis Cunningham wrote: What happens is that the reconfigure will run, and then it will just stop abnormally. It is like the program is done, but it is not because I never get to set my screen or video card etc. This leaves my xorg.conf looking like this: # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/10/2008 05:24 PM, Louis Cunningham wrote: What happens is that the reconfigure will run, and then it will just stop abnormally. It is like the program is done, but it is not because I never get to set my screen or video card etc. This leaves my xorg.conf looking like this: # xorg.conf

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-10 Thread Louis Cunningham
I'll try out vesa, and I have a ubuntu xorg.conf, but even when I put that in, it failed :\, i also don't have internet, so that puts anything but, well kde out of the picture for now, but i'll work on that later. so how can I go around using vesa? because nothing seems to working (that is