KDE won't start properly first time

[DTKiwi]

Can anyone help me with this one

When starting up my pc (Feisty Fawn 7.04) kde will not start properly first time up, just get a blank screen. If however I start up using the recovery console in grub and enter startx at the command line kde starts up fine and logs me on as root (automatically) if I then log out and enter reboot at the command line kde starts up properly and I can log in as the user I created during install. I have checked video and monitor hardware setup and that appears fine. Any one else struck this ?

thanks in advance

[javierrivera]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

No.

But it looks like a KDM problem to me. Specially if KDE starts right with startx. Maybe playing with its settings helps.

Do you have autologin enabled?.

Javier.

[DTKiwi]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

I haven't enabled autologin (not sure where you would to be honest)

Any KDM settings that you can suggest ?

cheers

[javierrivera]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

I will suggest a complete setting restart.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

Javier.

[DTKiwi]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

Thank you for your reply - have tried as you suggested but still the same. It seems if I do a reboot from KDE, it restarts with no problem and I can log on, and everything works fine. If I shutdown and then start the PC back up that's when it just goes to a blank (dark) screen

[DTKiwi]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

Problem Solved! While having a tidy up I found an old ATI video card and thought I would pop that in and see what happens. On boot up I got the Kubuntu splash screen/progress bar (missing before) and everything started up as it should. A bit of fine tuning in setup and everything looks great.

So looks like it was an issue with the onboard intel i810 video driver ?

[javierrivera]

Re: KDE won't start properly first time

So looks like it was an issue with the onboard intel i810 video driver ?

It seems quite likely.

Javier.