Re: Using Debian problem--please help

["Adam Frank" <adam@antilogo.org>]

> I don't know what to do from here and I'm confused as to what could be wrong
> please any input would greatly be appreciated.

Something useful (in addition to what's already been said here) that a
newbie *might* not know: when X starts and you wind up at that
seemingly-inescapable grey screen, you can:

hit CTRL+ALT+Backspace to restart your X session
hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to get out of X and back to your shells
Once back to your shell, you can use ALT+F[1-6] to navigate between
your shells, and ALT+F7 to get back into the running X session.


On 4/10/07, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Christian Hattery <neogabcjh@msn.com> wrote:
> > I used the netinst from the US mirror and I installed it on an AMD64
> system
> > and everything went fine and after the install when Debian ask's for my
> > account name and pass it leaves that GUI and goes to nothing but a GRAY
> > screen and a mouse cursor.
> >
> >
>
> That means that the X server is starting and working properly, but it does
> not have any clients to run, such as a program, or a window manager (wm), or
> a desktop environment (DE) like KDE or Gnome.
>
> So you just need to install one of these items. Most newbies probably want
> KDE or Gnome. To install KDE, just run (as root), "aptitude install kde".
> Then when you log in, KDE should start, and you'll be in a more familiar
> environment.
>
> Or it could just be that you need to use the GUI login screen's pull-down
> menu to select some environment to run if some suitable environment has
> already been installed.
>
> --
> Kent