Zachary Uram wrote:
Anyways, I just installed Debian 3.0 R2 (woody) which wass packaged with kernel 2.2.18. During X setup I selected default bpp of 24 (not sure what my on-mboard video supports - it has 4 MB VRAM) and for video type selected VESA (again since not sure what card supports). GDM gives me login prompt and after I enter normal user login/passwd it brings up a KDE startup dialog (BTW how to remove this and have it use GNOME?)
There should be a menu in GDM which allows you to select from your installed WM's/environments. Otherwise, you can look into ~/.xinitrc and/or ~/.xsession.
and then after a few seconds it crashes.
This sounds like some part of KDE is not being found. (Also, suspect your mouse; see below.)
Curiously if I don't use GDM but startup X from command line using "xinit" it will take me into barebones X and then I can startup a window manager, however if I use "startx" it also crashes! Confused :) I have attached my dmesg, lspci and XFree86 log info. The machine is a laptop - Dell Latitude C600.
I believe "xinit" and "startx" use different startup routines. I'm not really familiar with using xinit, but startx will, I believe, use the system's default window manager/environment. Perhaps xinit does not. In that case, I suspect Debian is not quite installed properly. (BTW, I notice you claim that you've installed Woody, but there are references to Knoppix in your log file; seems like you're not quite giving us all the details, maybe. The typical experience I've had/heard about is that installing Knoppix and then converting to pure Debian is fraught with peril. If you're going to go this route, I think I'd go Kanotix instead.)
You might try "apt-get --reinstall install kde gnome x-window-system", although since those are metapackages, this might not do you any good.
(**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3 (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
(Some folks, having to pay for their bandwidth by the bit, prefer large files like your log file to be posted on a web site, with a link in the posting, rather than posting the log file itself in the posting.)
You may be having trouble with X recognizing the mouse, although I suspect you have two mice defined in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and this is just the "other" mouse not being found, since GDM starts up. Does your mouse work in GDM?