WOW!! ok...i was able to get KDE, but now the graphics are completely screwed up! i may have set the screen resoloution wrong, but im not sure if i will be able to fix it, my mouse is appearing in 2 or 3 places, everything is scattered all over the screen, my desktop looks like a Picasso painting! is there anything i can do?
-Kenny On 5/11/05, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:07 pm, kenny B wrote: > > I installed KDE... i also tried 'startx' and it just said a bunch of > > stuff including: > > "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)." > > > > are there any other commands to start KDE? > > If you want a graphical login every time you reboot the machine, you need to > install kdm, so this is what I would do on Debian Sarge: > > apt-get update > > apt-get install kde-core kdm kdebase kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork > kdegraphics > > You can then do "apt-cache search kde | more" to see what packages you want > and install those as well. > > You could also do (instead of what I put above): > > apt-get update > apt-get install kde > > That will install almost all the KDE packages, but it will leave you with lots > of packages you might not want (in my case it was games) and it is easier to > remove that stuff by not installing it in the first place, that is why I > recommend installing kde-core and a few base packages and then installing > just the KDE packages you want to install. > > When they are all installed, you can start kdm with '/etc/init.d/kdm start' if > this does not happen on its own and then login to a kde session by entering > your usual login and password and KDE in the drop down menu where you select > the type of session desired. If you don't select KDE, I believe you will get > Gnome desktop if that is installed. If you see a Gnome session, just logout > and login again but this time, select KDM for the session type. > > Make sure you have installed an X server also. On my system I have > > xserver-xfree86 > > You might also need to install drivers for your video card, you did not say > which card is installed on your system. If you cannot get a KDE session > after you have installed an X server and KDE, it might be that you don't have > the drivers, so post errors to the list and someone might know what else is > needed. > > -- > Andrew >
