dear folk, i have had the weirdest luck with X, kde, what have you. to wit:
performing a network install in dec 2003 was astonishingly easy. since then, i have had nothing but hairpulling and cursing trying to get anything other than a command line prompt. google has provided nothing but false leads. local library and bookstores have linux books exclusively for x86 architecture. here's my situation: ordinarily, typing in startx or xf86cfg (or any of their ilk) causes my screen to flash four times and come back with a cryptic error message along the lines of "error connecting to server... explicit kill or shutdown". last week, i decided to try "apt-get install apache" as part of a perl course. smooth, good, easy, (no, I'm not sure why I didn't choose apache in tasksel the first time through). out of habit, i suppose, i restarted. imagine my surprise to find myself with a GUI login to a kde desktop! I was in heaven for about a day, apache near forgotten, until I logged out and tried to log back in again as root (yes, i know, 'su' is better). my keyboard and mouse had no effect on the login screen. I muttered #!2e%*******, and performed a hard power cycle. GUI gone. back to CLI. apache works nicely, though configuring it for perl is going to require a _lot_ of research from the looks of it. why should installing apache cause kde to work correctly for one login? i decided to re-install onto a wiped hard drive and keep a log of EVERY decision, action, potentially relevant message. much faster the second time around, but still no graphical environment. does anyone know how to get kde up and running on a 7600 (g3 upgrade card) ? hopeful that others in similar boats will be able to offer guidance or moral support... peter -- HTML formatted email has a 99% chance of being flensed by my filters, never to appear on my screen. Nothing personal. Unsolicited commercial email will be retrieved and/or read and/or translated and/or considered and/or printed and/or shredded and/or deleted and/or stored at a charge of $500.00 CDN per service per message. Use of this email address indicates consent to these terms. If this is unclear, consult Yojo before contacting me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
