Quoting Richard <richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk>: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:02:44 +0100 > Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Quoting Richard <richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk>: > > > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 > > > Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : > > > > > Hello there again, > > > > > > > > > > I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi > > > > > work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. > > > > > > > > > > Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me > > > > > there were tons of things to do, which I did, except it broke here > and > > > > > there (on thing was that dialog [box, I suppose] was impossible > > > > > because TERM was not set, and indeed the details of progress appeared > > > > > in command-line style); update was cancelled. I started again, it > > > > > apparently progressed a little bit more, but still failed. I can't > > > > > remembered exactly what happened, but some things were related to > Gnome. > > > > > > > > > > Anyway, gVim was installed, but I'd lost e.g. NetworkManager in the > > > > > taskbar (although I still had an internet connection), so I thought > > > > > rebooting might be good. Alas, after rebooting, I had no desktop > > > > > anymore, simply the commandline. I updated Gnome, just in case, but > > > > > still no desktop. I launched "synaptic safe-upgrade", which did a lot > > > > > of things, but didn't gave me the desktop back, even after reboot. > > > > > > > > > > So, what have I done wrong again? > > > > > > > > "startx" was the solution (I could have searched the web *before* > asking > > > > here). Sorry for the noise. > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > you could try deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf, > > > if there is corruption there, deleting it will force xconfig. > > > > > > just a guess HTH > > > > Everything is fine now. I've just replaced Gnome with Xfce, because Gnome > > doesn't work well with wheezy for the moment. > > > > Paul > > > > > > Strange Paul, I'm running gnome from wheezy/sid and its OK, nice and stable, > so wheezy should be OK.
Gnome told me on startup that it would run in restricted mode, probably because my video card didn't support it (or so I remember). But I'm quite happy with Xfce, so I don't mind! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1322302275.4ed0bb4387...@imp.free.fr
