Re: KDE 2.1.1 + XFree86 4.0.3 + Matrox G450
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:46:34PM -0700, Frankie Fong wrote:
> From: "Frankie Fong" <volks38@hotmail.com>
> 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
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