On Thursday 01 April 2004 20:39, Sean O'Dell wrote: > I'm new to Debian, and this morning I put a half-way finished installation > into a broken state and I can't figure out how to get it back on track. > > Basically, I was trying to get a KDE machine working, and this morning I > added non-free and contrib to my sources.list file so I could install the > nvidia driver. I had the machine working primitively with > networking+dhcpcd working, but KDE wasn't running yet because I needed to > install the nvidia driver. I had both testing and unstable sources in > sources.list in order to get KDE 3.2 installed. After adding non-free and > contrib to my sources this morning, I ran apt-get update, dist-upgrade and > upgrade, then apt-get install nvidia-glx. I rebooted the system after that
Its been a while since I worked with the nvidia drivers, but don't you have to build them from source once you've downloaded the debian package? > to see how it would all go, and at that point, things were pretty funky. > eth0 isn't up, I can't get dhcpcd to start, and now I can't even get kdm to What happened when the should have started - was there any error on the console? > report anything in /var/log/kdm.log nor XFree86 to report anything in > /var/log/XFree86.0.log...they apparently both die before they can even log > anything. XFree86.0.log is the day old log. Is there no new log. Did X even try to start? > > What should I do to get things straightened back out? What did I do to get > things into this state? > > Just in case, I've included my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Is there > anything else I should provide for reference? Need much clearer description of exactly what happened during start up. Are you left with a login prompt on the text console? > > > Sean O'Dell -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
