Re: KDE or Picasso?

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from kenny B:
> On 5/11/05, Pollywog <linux@shadypond.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:07 pm, kenny B wrote:
> > > I installed KDE... i also tried 'startx' and it just said a bunch of
> > > stuff including:
> > > "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)."
> >
> > If you want a graphical login every time you reboot the machine, you need to
> > install kdm, so this is what I would do on Debian Sarge:
> >
> > apt-get update
> >
> > apt-get install kde-core kdm kdebase kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork
> > kdegraphics
> 
> WOW!! ok...i was able to get KDE, but now the graphics are completely
> screwed up! i may have set the screen resoloution wrong, but im not

CTRL-ALT-F1 gets you to a console prompt.  login as root, then
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86".  Then, CTRL-ALT-F7 takes you back
to X.  CTRL-ALT-Backspace kills X, and [xkgw]dm should restart it with
the new settings.


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