On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:40:45PM -0700, Brian wrote: > Doh! Please help! > > I installed 3.0r1 with little trouble last night on a laptop. Wow. The > installer is great now. > > Unfortunately, I already broke this new system by following the advice > on this page: > > http://www.nward.net/resources/2002-08-04_debian_laptop.shtml > > regarding making both the touchpad and the USB mouse work simultaneously. > > He had me alter: > /etc/modules > /etc/fstab > /etc/modutils/aliases > > run update-modules > > and then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Ok. This is modifying some module loading stuff, and your basic X configuration. However, if X starts at all (as it is, since you get to the KDE startup thingy), then it's almost certainly not an X issue. Could you show use the bottom of your /var/log/XFree86.0.log, to be sure? > I restarted X and KDE hangs at the Starting System Services icon and > then eventually the screen goes white. > > Here's the real trouble. I used vi to undo ALL the above changes and KDE > still won't start! As above, it's almost certainly a KDE thing. Try moving your ~/.kde out of the way and see if that helps (mv ~/.kde ~/.kde.old). -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: nitrate jihad digicash cypherpunk cypherpunk terrorist
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