On Thu January 25 2007 06:35, Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have installed both Gnome and KDE. > > Xinit shows 6 titles starting with X ; whether a xserver is running > or not - I do not know. > > I have read the installation documents ; but I am still not sure what > I am doing, > I am trying to get either Gnome or KDE up as a graphical screen - > without success. > > Can some kind person indicate what I should do now ?
Make sure you have xorg (or x-window-system for sarge) installed, I think that would be a dependency of gnome or kde but I'm not sure. At the very end of the boot sequence you should see kdm or gdm starting and that should fire up your desktop manager and then you can log in. If that isn't starting succesfully x may not be configured right. Try running "dpkg-reconfigure xsever-xorg" (or "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" for sarge) and choose the vesa driver, that will (almost) always work. You can tweak it further once your up and running if needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
