On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:46:34PM -0700, Frankie Fong wrote: > From: "Frankie Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: KDE 2.1.1 + XFree86 4.0.3 + Matrox G450 > > Hello everyone, > > I have a situation where I wonder if anybody experienced: > > I have a Debian 2.2r2 distribution installed. > I have XFree86 4.0.3 installed from source (built together with > the latest Matrox G450 driver) > > X works fine with twm as window manager. > > then I installed the KDE2.2.1 binary deb packages: > KDElibs3 > KDEbase > > successfully after I resolved the dependencies which > include the following packages: > XFree86 3.3.6, qt 2.3.0, > libssl096 -> libc6 2.2.2.4 -> libdb2.7.7-7 > > they all installed successfully. > > in order to rebuild my XFree86 4.0.3 after the libc6 update, > i installed libc6-dev 2.2.2.4. > > X worked fine after the upgrade (with twm). > > then I modified my .xinitrc script to run 'startkde' > instead of the 'twm' stuff. > > startx > > after some blinking and flashing of the screen, x dies. > > strangely enough, when i compared the /var/log/XFree86.0.log > of my successful twm start and my failed kde start, they > are both the same. > > I am hoping for someone who could point me to somewhere else > inside the system where i could find some KDE/X error messages. > I had this happen more times than I care to admit.. turns out some of the fonts I copied from another OS (M$) weren't up to snuff. They caused all sorts of problems, from X crashing back to desktop ( on startup, trying to use xfontsel, trying to change fonts in konsole, but not control-center -- I had to pick a certain font or 2 to crash there). Oh, my solution here, remove the other fonts, since then, no problems.
As I recall, the ssh problem from another response provides an error message when X fails to start. Something about wrong protocol? I posted it to debian-x the day libssl0.9.6a came out.. Good luck Gordon Sadler
