Re: KDE install issues

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Louis Cunningham wrote:
> I'll try out vesa,  and I have a ubuntu xorg.conf, but even when I put 
> that in, it failed :\, i also don't have internet, so that puts 
> anything but, well kde out of the picture for now, but i'll work on 
> that later.  so how can I go around using vesa?  because nothing seems 
> to working (that is other than my ubuntu os :))

Actually, you can take KDE out of the picture, but at the expense of 
being very minimalistic. Create a file in your home directory named 
".xinitrc" and in it put the single line "xterm". Now, next time you run 
"startx", you'll get X with nothing more than a single xterm window. 
Typing "exit" in that window will shut down X.

Manually edit your xorg.conf file, adding the following change to the 
specified section:

Section "Device"
   Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
   Driver         "vesa"
EndSection


Create the .xinitrc file, and then run "startx", and let us know what 
happens.


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