KDE StartX issues

[ssfusion]

I have installed Mandrake 8 on my laptop and one of my desktops and get the same problem...It loads all of the initakl stuff then stops at a grey screen with a cursor... no Login no kde no nothing???I can ctrl. atl. F2 and drop out and log in as root and user...I have tried using the Xconfigurator with different settings...no Luck...This is driving me nuts...HELP HELP...

System is K63 450, 256 megs ram, and a voodoo3... :eek: :confused:

[Dave Long]

I had similar problems when installing SuSE 7.0 (grey screen and almost completly locked up during X11 setup, the only thing I could do was CTRL+ALT+DEL, which forced unmount and reboot!).

WARNING: I can only suggest things that I did as the programs I used as they might not have been shipped with your dist, I hope the following helps.

The way I got around the grey screening was to run sax, sax2 and then isax (all of which configure the graphical options for X). Then I found I could only run initx as root (startx wouldn't run at all since no X server was running). The wasy this was solved was an option in YaST which allowed me to change from ASCII login to Graphical. This solved my problems and I could continue setting up my box.

Hope any of this helps

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Dave

[ste@desine]

I'm pretty sure that Mandrake 8 doesn't have any version of sax installed. (I did a find as root and it only found one thing which is XML related, not X configuration related)

On the other hand, they have a nifty X configuration tool called XFdrake which makes configuring X a snap. (The menus on it are very similar to the ones from the graphical install) Unfortunately, I tried various settings for X using XFdrake and none of them worked getting X to start for my user account, while X seemed to work fine from my root account for almost every configuration I used.

Following the advice of someone else on this forum, I put 'startkde' into an .xinitrc file and that helped a tad. Instead of a gray screen, I now get the blue background for KDE, but it still stalls there. I don't want to set up other stuff until I know that I can get KDE working on this box, so if someone has some insight into this, I think it would be very useful for me and ssfusion :)

P.S. ssfusion: can you successfully run startx as root? If you can, then we most likely have the same problem :)

[ 17 May 2001: Message edited by: ste@desine ]